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Bioethics around the globe /

Contemporary bioethics, now roughly 40 years old as a discipline, originated in the United States with a primarily Anglo-American cultural ethos. It continues to be professionalized and institutionalized as a maturing discipline at the intersections of philosophy, medicine, law, social sciences, and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Myser, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Bioethics as missionary work : the export of Western ethics to developing countries / Raymond De Vries & Leslie Rott
  • Facing up to the hard problems : Western bioethics in the Eastern land of India / Subrata Chattopadhyay
  • Capacity building in developing world bioethics : perspectives on biomedicine and biomedical ethics in contemporary Sri Lanka / Robert Simpson
  • French bioethics : the rhetoric of universality and the ethics of medical responsibility / Kristina Orfali
  • The social forms and functions of bioethics in the United Kingdom / Richard E. Ashcroft & Mary Dixon-Woods
  • Bioethics between two worlds : the politics of ethics in Central Europe / Bruce Jennings
  • Bioethics in Chile and the need for Latin American bioethics / Miguel Kottow & Moises Russo
  • Bioethics in Costa Rica : origins and challenges / Fred Gifford & Ana Rodriguez
  • The social functions of bioethics in South Africa / Anton Van Niekerk & Solomon Benatar
  • Toward an African Ubuntu/Umunthu bioethics in Malawi in the context of globalization / Joseph Mfutso-Bengo & Francis Masiye
  • Reflections on bioethics in China : interactions between bioethics and society / Qiu Ren Zong
  • The dominion of bioethics : nationalism and Canadian bioethics / Andrea Frolic & Michael D. Coughlin & Bernard Keating
  • Negotiating Islamic identity in Egypt through bioethics : contesting 'the West' and Saudi Arabia / Thomas Eich & Bjorn Bentlage
  • Bioethics in Australia : on politics, power, and the rise of the Christian right / Rob Irvine & Ian Kerridge & Paul Komesaroff
  • Bioethics in the United States : contested terrain for competing visions of American liberalism / Bruce Jennings & Jonathan Moreno.