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Religion and Global Bioethics

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Abstract

Although the existence of a global ethics and bioethics is questioned, one can without a doubt show that the global community has accepted a universal ethics. A global religious “bioethics” was formulated in 1999 and it can be viewed as a precursor to the universal bioethics accepted by UNESCO in 2005.

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  • Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Global ethics
  • Global bioethics
  • Religion
  • Dialectic
  • Shared values
  • Global moral community

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    Riaan Rheeder

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Rheeder, R. (2014). Religion and Global Bioethics. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_365-1

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