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Bioethics in a Small World

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Editors:
  1. Felix Thiele

    1. Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

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  2. R. E. Ashcroft

    1. Medical Ethics Unit, Dept. of Health, Care and Gen. Practice, Imperial College London, London, UK

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  3. Friederike Wütscher

    1. Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

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  • Contributions to one of the most controversial topics of modern societies

Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment (ETHICSSCI, volume 24)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction

    • Felix Thiele, Richard Ashcroft
    Pages 1-3

  3. Cultural Rationality and Moral Principles

    • Oswald Schwemmer
    Pages 5-16

  4. Morality and Culture: Are Ethics Culture-Dependent?

    • Godfrey B. Tangwa
    Pages 17-21

  5. Neither Golden Nugget nor Frankenstein. The need to Re-embed Food Biotechnologies in Sociocultural Contexts

    • Michiel Korthals
    Pages 23-31

  6. Beyond GM Foods: Genomics, Biotechnology and Global Health Equity

    • Abdallah S. Daar, Tara Acharya, Isaac Filate, Halla Thorsteinsdottir, Peter Singer
    Pages 33-44

  7. Patents on Biomaterial — A New Colonialism or a Means for Technology Transfer and Benefit-Sharing?

    • Joseph Straus
    Pages 45-72

  8. From the Corporeal to the Informational: Exploring the Scope of Benefit Sharing Agreements and their Applicability to Sequence Databases

    • Bronwyn Parry
    Pages 73-91

  9. Access to Essential Drugs, Human Rights and Global Justice

    • Carmel Shalev
    Pages 93-109

  10. Access to Essential Drugs: the Ethical Challenge of Allocating Obligations

    • Georg Marckmann
    Pages 111-119

  11. Why is it Morally Wrong to Clone a Human Being? How to Evaluate Arguments of Biopolitics, Biomorality, and Bioethics

    • Edgar Morscher
    Pages 121-128

  12. Bioethics and (Public) Policy Advice

    • Udo Schüklenk, Jason P. Lott
    Pages 129-138
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The world seems ever smaller and ever quicker: environmental, public health, industrial and cultural processes operate ever more on a global, rather than a local scale. Does this process, sometimes known as globalisation, draw us closer together, or drive us further apart, from a moral point of view? In recent years, bioethics has addressed many of the issues that arise in the context of globalisation: solidarity, conflict, and autonomy; human rights, liberty and toleration; the political and economic context of health care and inequalities in health; environmental and public health change. At the same time, bioethics has often been merely an agent of obscure political forces, and has been challenged for its emphasis on autonomy over considerations of justice. This study brings together scientists from the fields of medicine, law, and philosophy. The texts are the results of a conference the Europäische Akademie held in 2003. The group developed its thesis in open discussions of foundational and applied problems of bioethics from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

    Felix Thiele, Friederike Wütscher

  • Medical Ethics Unit, Dept. of Health, Care and Gen. Practice, Imperial College London, London, UK

    R. E. Ashcroft

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