American Bioethics

Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries

George Annas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-539029-2 (ISBN)

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Bioethics was "born in the USA" and the values American bioethics embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice. This book crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for dominance by exploring attempts to articulate universal principles based on international human rights. The isolationism of bioethics in the US is not tenable in the wake of scientific triumphs like decoding the human genome, and civilizational tragedies like international terrorism. Annas argues that by crossing boundaries which have artificially separated bioethics and health law from the international human rights movement, American bioethics can be reborn as a global force for good, instead of serving mainly the purposes of U.S. academics. This thesis is explored in a variety of international contexts such as terrorism and genetic engineering, and in U.S. domestic disputes such as patient rights and market medicine. The citizens of the world have created two universal codes: science has sequenced the human genome and the United Nations has produced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The challenge for American bioethics is to combine these two great codes in imaginative and constructive ways to make the world a better, and healthier, place to live.

Introduction ; I.Bioethics and Human Rights ; 1.Bioethics and Bioterrorism ; 2.Human Rights and Health ; 3.The Man on the Moon ; 4.The Endangered Human ; 5.The Right to Health ; 6.Capital Punishment ; II.Bioethics and Health Law ; 7.Conjoined Twins ; 8.Patient Rights ; 9.White Coat Police ; 10.Partial Birth Abortion ; 11.The Shadowlands ; 12.Waste and Longing

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-19-539029-6 / 0195390296
ISBN-13	978-0-19-539029-2 / 9780195390292
Zustand	Neuware