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American bioethics : crossing human rights and health law boundaries /
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 articula...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199748099 0199748098 1423763408 9781423763406 9780195169492 0195169492 1280534451 9781280534454 0195390296 9780195390292 1602568472 9781602568471 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |