Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Future Perspectives

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
Handbook of Global Bioethics

Abstract

This chapter looks at the challenges of global bioethics in the years ahead. As the particular version of global bioethics favored in this volume has thrown in its lot with the human rights tradition, its fate is closely connected with the latter’s prospects. Therefore, this chapter starts with a brief review of the history of this tradition. It then looks at the relationship between human rights and bioethics in the Universal Declaration. Furthermore, it examines the key pros and cons of linking up with human rights from a global bioethics point of view. Based on these historic and systematic sketches, it finally focuses on the path ahead for global bioethics and endeavors to distinguish its main challenges.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 949.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 549.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Andorno, R. (2007). Global bioethics at UNESCO: In defence of the universal declaration on bioethics and human rights. Journal of Medical Ethics, 33(3), 150–154.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Andorno, R. (2008). Warum braucht eine globale Bioethik die Menschenrechte. In N. Biller-Andorno, P. Schaber, & A. Schulz-Baldes (Eds.), Gibt es eine universale Bioethik (pp. 59–72). Paderborn: Mentis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andorno, R. (2009). Human dignity and human rights as a common ground for a global bioethics. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 34(3), 223–240.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Annas, G. J. (2003). Bioethics and human rights. Hastings Center Report, 33(5), 3.

    Google Scholar 

  • Annas, G. J. (2004). American bioethics and human rights: The end of all our exploring. Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics, 32(4), 658–663.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Annas, G. J. (2010). Human rights and American bioethics: Resistance is futile. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 19(1), 133–141.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Arras, J., & Fenton, E. (2009). Bioethics and human rights: Access to health-related goods. Hastings Center Report, 29, 27–38.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ashcroft, R. E. (2008). The troubled relationship between bioethics and human rights. In M. Freeman (Ed.), Law and bioethics (pp. 31–52). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Ashcroft, R. E. (2010). Could human rights supersede bioethics? Human Rights Law Review, 10(4), 639–660.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baker, R. (2001). Bioethics and human rights: A historical perspective. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 10, 241–252.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Benatar, D. (2006). Bioethics and health and human rights: A critical view. Journal of Medical Ethics, 32(1), 17–20.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Byk, C. (2007). La Déclaration universelle sur la bioéthique et les droits de l’homme. Journal de Droit International, 3, 864–882.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cooper, B. (2010). New birth of freedom. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/books/review/Cooper-t.html?_r=0

  • DDC. (1789). Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen. Retrieved from http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/dudh/1789.asp

  • DoI. (1776). The Declaration of Independence. Retrieved from http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

  • Fenton, E., & Arras, J. (2010). Bioethics and human rights: Curb your enthusiasm. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 19, 127–133.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gordon, J.-S. (2012). Human rights in bioethics – Theoretical and applied. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15(3), 283–294.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hunt, L. (2007). Inventing human rights. New York: Norton.

    Google Scholar 

  • International Bioethics Committee. (2010). On social responsibility and health. Paris: UNESCO.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mann, J. (1996). Editorial: Health and human rights. Protecting human rights is essential for promoting health. British Medical Journal, 312(7036), 924–925.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moyn, S. (2010). The last Utopia: Human rights in history. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nys, H. (2006). Towards an International Treaty on Human Rights and Biomedicine? Some reflections inspired by UNESCO’s universal declaration on bioethics and human rights. European Journal of Health Law, 134, 5–8.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sakamoto, H. (1999). Towards a new “global bioethics”. Bioethics, 13, 191–197.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schroeder, D. (2005). Human rights and their role in global bioethics. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 14(2), 221–234.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schroeder, D. (2012). Human rights and human dignity: An appeal to separate the conjoined twins. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15(3), 323–335.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ten Have, H. (2008). UNESCO’s ethics education programme. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34(10), 57–59.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ten Have, H. (2011). Bioethiek zonder grenzen. Mondialisering van gezondheid, ethiek en wetenschap. Nijmegen, Netherlands: Valkhof Pers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ten Have, H. (2013, in press). Bioethics and human rights. Whenever the twain shall meet. In S. Vöneky (Ed.), The ethicalization of law.

    Google Scholar 

  • UNESCO. (2005). Universal declaration on bioethics and human rights. Retrieved from http://portal.unesco.org

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Prof. Bert Gordijn (Director)

  2. Center for Health-care Ethics, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, 15282, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Prof. Henk A. M. J. ten Have (Director)

Authors
  1. Prof. Bert Gordijn
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Prof. Henk A. M. J. ten Have
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Bert Gordijn .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pittsburgh, USA

    Henk A.M.J. ten Have

  2. Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Bert Gordijn

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

About this entry

Cite this entry

Gordijn, B., ten Have, H.A.M.J. (2014). Future Perspectives. In: ten Have, H., Gordijn, B. (eds) Handbook of Global Bioethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2512-6_131

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2512-6_131

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht

  • Print ISBN: 978-94-007-2511-9

  • Online ISBN: 978-94-007-2512-6

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation