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Justice, Global

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The interpretation of justice in the context of bioethics should not be restricted to the normative legal-juridical field. On the contrary, since the time of conceptualization of global bioethics, incorporation of the reference framework of global justice to this broad context has required an appropriate conceptual opening and practical application to the modern world. The basis for this is the theory of universal human rights and its convergence with bioethics through the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005), which politicized the international bioethics agenda by expanding its applied thematic focus, i.e., the biomedical-biotechnological themes that previously were prioritized within traditional bioethics, to health-related, social, and environmental topics. The basis for these ideas is sustained by the need for global bioethics and global justice to serve as practical support instruments for social inclusion in a world in which socioeconomic disparities and inequalities of access to the minimum assets for dignified human life to be developed continue to persist. In addition to analyzing the concepts of empowerment, liberation, and emancipation, this entry covers the need to bring (bio)ethics closer to politics and discusses the topic of equity and the interpretation of the environment as something precious that is everyone’s property, starting from the certainty that the natural resources of the planet are finite.

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  1. UNESCO Chair of Bioethics/Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Brasília, 04451, Brasília, Brazil

    Volnei Garrafa

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  1. Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henk ten Have

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Garrafa, V. (2015). Justice, Global. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_261-1

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