Suchergebnisse

Global interests in bioethics have increased drastically since the end of
20th century. The reason for this should be ascribed to a broad application
of molecular-genetic methods introduced in human bio-medicine. This has, in
turn, produced an involvement and development of numerous inter-disciplines,
which have started to apply bioethics as a part of their own subject of
interest. This article presents more than a decade of experience of teaching
bioethics in our country, particularly under the auspices of the National
Com?mittee for Bioethics of UNESCO-commission of Serbia.

Bioethics concerns the relationship between the medical professions and the cultures in which they operate. Sarah Ferber has developed an invaluable introduction to contemporary bioethics which incorporates historical and broader cultural approaches, appealing and relevant to students and practitioners alike.

Introduction : text, tradition, authority, and method in religious bioethics / B. Andrew Lustig -- Roman Catholic bioethics / Christopher Tollefsen and Joseph Boyle -- Orthodox Christian bioethics : medical morality in the mind of the fathers / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Bioethics in the Episcopal tradition / Cynthia B. Cohen and David H. Smith -- Gospel truth and societal consensus : recent bioethics statements by the Protestant church in Germany (EKD) / Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes and Matthias Zierenberg -- Reformed perspectives in bioethics / Ruth Groenhout -- Southern Baptists and bioethics / C. Ben Mitchell -- Authority and agency : policies and principles in Latter-Day Saints bioethics / Courtney S. Campbell -- Jewish bioethics / Harvey L. Gordon and Mark Washofsky -- Jewish perspectives on embryo and stem cell research / Aaron L. Mackler -- Islamic bioethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Buddhism and bioethics / Damien Keown -- Hindu bioethics / Cromwell Crawford -- Sikh perspectives on bioethics / Devinder Singh Chahal -- Daoism and bioethics : Daode Jin's doctrine of naturalness and the principle of non-action / Jonathan Chan.

Virtues and goals in pediatrics / G. Kevin Donovan and Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Contributions of ethical theory to pediatric ethics : parents as co-fiduciaries of pediatrics patients / Laurence B. McCullough -- Using the best interests standards in treatment decisions for young children / Loretta M. Kopelman -- Moral and legal status of children and parents / Sadath A. Sayeed -- The ethics of pediatric research / Jonathan D. Moreno and Alexandra Kravitt -- Truth telling in pediatrics : what they don't know might hurt them / Christine Harrison -- Pediatric ethics committees / Mark R. Mercurio -- Newborn screening / Lainie Friedman Ross -- Presymptomatic genetic testing in children / Kimberly A. Quaid -- Extreme prematurity : truth and justice / Geoffrey Miller -- Disorders of sex development / Alice D. Dreger and David Sandberg -- Rationality, personhood, and Peter Singer on the fate of severely impaired infants / Eva Feder Kittay -- The ethics of controlling reproduction in a population with mental disabilities / Paul A. Lombardo -- Pediatric innovative surgery / Angelique M. Reitsma -- Conjoined twins / Alice D. Dreger and Geoffrey Miller -- Ethics and immunization / Joel E. Frader and Erin Flanagan-Klygis -- Psychotropic drug use in children : the case of stimulants / Ilina Singh -- Brain death, minimal consciousness, and vegetative states in children / Geoffrey Miller and Stephen Ashwal -- The foregoing of life sustaining treatment for children / Sadath A. Sayeed and Geoffrey Miller

This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It proves that these innovations have a suggestive character which is not relevant, however, in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics.

Preface; A. Bagheri, J. Moreno and S. Semplici -- Chapter One Globalizing Bioethics Through, Beyond and Despite Governments; Henk ten Have -- Chapter Two The UNESCO Universal Declarations: Paperwork or Added Value to the International Conversation on Bioethics? The example of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights; Michèle Stanton-Jean -- Chapter Three Twenty Years of the International Bioethics Committee: Achievements and Future Priorities; Nouzha Guessous -- Chapter Four The Universality of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights; Richard Magnus -- Chapter Five Consent and Bioethics; Sheila A.M. McLean -- Chapter Six Global Bioethics as Social Bioethics; Stefano Semplici -- Chapter Seven Ethics and Traditional Medicine -- Emilio La Rosa Rodríguez Chapter Eight Biobanks: Balancing Benefits and Risks; Ewa Bartnik and Eero Vuorio -- Chapter Nine The Risk of Discrimination and Stigmatization in Organ Transplantation and Trafficking; Alireza Bagheri -- Chapter Ten Dust of Wonder, Dust of Doom: A Landscape of Nanotechnology, Nanoethics, and Sustainable Development; Fabio Salamanca-Buentello and Abdallah S. Daar -- Chapter Eleven The National Bioethics Committees and the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: Their Potential and Optimal Functioning; Jean F. Martin -- Chapter Twelve The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee and the Network of Ethical Advisory Bodies in Europe: An Interactive Relationship; Christiane Druml -- Chapter Thirteen The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee's Activities on Central and Eastern Europe; Olga Kubar and Jože Trontelj -- Chapter Fourteen Bioethics in Arab Region and the Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee; Sadek Beloucif and Mohamed S. Ben Ammar -- Chapter Fifteen The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee on Latin America: Respect for Cultural Diversity and Pluralism; Claude Vergès, Delia Sánchez, Volnei Garrafa and Andrés Peralta -- Chapter Sixteen Bioethics Development in Africa: The Contribution of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee; Monique Wasunna, Aïssatou Toure and Christine Wasunna -- Chapter Seventeen Bioethics in East Asia: Issues and Development; Myongsei Sohn -- Contributors -- Index .

The panorama of bioethical problems is different today. Patients travel to Thailand for fast surgery; commercial surrogate mothers in India deliver babies to parents in rich countries; organs, body parts and tissues are trafficked from East to Western Europe; physicians and nurses migrating from Africa to the U.S; thousands of children or patients with malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS are dying each day because they cannot afford effective drugs that are too expensive. Mainstream bioethics as it has developed during the last 50 years in Western countries is evolving into a broader approach that is relevant for people across the world and is focused on new global problems. This book provides an introduction into the new field of global bioethics. Addressing these problems requires a broader vision of bioethics that not only goes beyond the current emphasis on individual autonomy, but that criticizes the social, economic and political context that is producing the problems at global level. This book argues that global bioethics is a necessity because the social, economic and environmental effects of globalization require critical responses.