Description
This third edition collection provides a contemporary survey of current international issues in bioethics and human rights for study across social science disciplines. New chapters discuss the reproductive justice in the US, immigration politics and medical duty during pandemics, climate change implications for bioethics, acoustic weaponry technologies, and vaccine politics.
Following a consideration of theoretical frameworks, there three units on human rights, life and death, and public health form an in-depth look at contemporary issues in the field of bioethics. Each unit includes cutting edge analyses by international experts and thought-provoking case studies, as well as discussion and essay prompts, and Internet and film resources. Topics range from pediatric genomics, abortion (including the Dobbs decision, medical tourism, human experimentation, climate change, the Havana syndrome, the care of aging family members, truth-telling, vulnerable human subjects, health equity, healthcare in ICE detention facilities, solitary confinement, euthanasia, lethal injections and the harvesting of human organs, pandemic ethics, vaccine controversies, and more.
The new, updated, and retained chapters make this book an appealing resource as a primary text, scholarly reference book, or a course supplement.
Contributors: Robert Baker, Tom L. Beauchamp, Michael Boylan, Marlene Brant Castellano, Cher Weixia Chen, Zenon Culverhouse, Bernard Gert, Søren Holm, Ilhan Ilkilic, Akiko Ito, Rita Manning, Kimberly Mutcherson, Peter F. Omonzejele, Pinit Ratanakul, Alison Dundes Renteln, Maya Sabatello, Udo Schüklenk, Edward H. Spence, Bradley P. Stoner, Scott Stonington, Peter Tagore Tan, Wanda Teays, Rosemarie Tong, Carlos Verdugo-Serna, Virginia L. Warren, Cecilia (Lim) Wee
Product Details
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publish Date | December 12, 2023 |
| Pages | 438 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781538188590 |
| Dimensions | 10.0 X 7.0 X 0.9 inches | 2.1 pounds |
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Reviews
"This new and timely edition of an emerging classical volume on bioethics and human rights meets most expectations. However, this new iteration does not replace, but rather complements, previous editions. While the book still includes well-crafted, fundamental pieces that both support and challenge the notion of global bioethics, epitomized by the unperishable trio of Gert, Beauchamp, and Holm, this edition includes several new articles that address previously missing questions and approach more voguish issues. Culture and truth-telling in medicine and the rights of persons with disabilities count among the former, while a number of COVID-related articles belong to the latter. As in previous editions, the book has further readings and materials, specific questions for discussion, essays, and representative cases for didactic exercises. For those who are interested in the timeless problems of biomedicine and human rights, this volume delivers, yet this reviewer recommends referencing previous editions as well. Readers who are seeking more recent problems in health care and human rights will welcome it, although many journals have already published similar materials. This edition will have a shorter shelf life than its predecessors, which is the fate of all timely publications. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, practitioners." --Choice Reviews
"This important collection takes a wide range of key ethical issues in global health and examines them in the context of human rights theory and practice. It could not be more useful or more timely." --Richard Ashcroft, professor of bioethics, City Law School, City, University of London
"Combine authors from a Who's Who list in ethics with global issues that interest us all and you achieve this book. Well done!" --Doris Schroeder, director, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire
Combine authors from a Who's Who list in ethics with global issues that interest us all and you achieve this book. Well done!
This important collection takes a wide range of key ethical issues in global health and examines them in the context of human rights theory and practice. It could not be more useful or more timely.
This new and timely edition of an emerging classical volume on bioethics and human rights meets most expectations. However, this new iteration does not replace, but rather complements, previous editions. While the book still includes well-crafted, fundamental pieces that both support and challenge the notion of global bioethics, epitomized by the unperishable trio of Gert, Beauchamp, and Holm, this edition includes several new articles that address previously missing questions and approach more voguish issues. Culture and truth-telling in medicine and the rights of persons with disabilities count among the former, while a number of COVID-related articles belong to the latter. As in previous editions, the book has further readings and materials, specific questions for discussion, essays, and representative cases for didactic exercises. For those who are interested in the timeless problems of biomedicine and human rights, this volume delivers, yet this reviewer recommends referencing previous editions as well. Readers who are seeking more recent problems in health care and human rights will welcome it, although many journals have already published similar materials. This edition will have a shorter shelf life than its predecessors, which is the fate of all timely publications. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, practitioners.
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