Bioethics in a Small World

The world seems ever smaller and ever quicker: environmental, public health, industrial and cultural processes operate ever more on a global, rather than a local scale. Does this process, sometimes known as globalisation, draw us closer together, or drive us further apart, from a moral point of view...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Thiele, Felix (Editor ), Ashcroft, R.E (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Colección:Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 24
Temas:
Engineering.
Ethics.
Medicine > Research.
Biology > Research.
Life sciences.
Biomedical engineering.
Technology and Engineering.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Biomedical Research.
Life Sciences.
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cultural Rationality and Moral Principles
  • Morality and Culture: Are Ethics Culture-Dependent?
  • Neither Golden Nugget nor Frankenstein. The need to Re-embed Food Biotechnologies in Sociocultural Contexts
  • Beyond GM Foods: Genomics, Biotechnology and Global Health Equity
  • Patents on Biomaterial - A New Colonialism or a Means for Technology Transfer and Benefit-Sharing?
  • From the Corporeal to the Informational: Exploring the Scope of Benefit Sharing Agreements and their Applicability to Sequence Databases
  • Access to Essential Drugs, Human Rights and Global Justice
  • Access to Essential Drugs: the Ethical Challenge of Allocating Obligations
  • Why is it Morally Wrong to Clone a Human Being? How to Evaluate Arguments of Biopolitics, Biomorality, and Bioethics
  • Bioethics and (Public) Policy Advice.

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