Bioethics in a Small World [electronic resource] /edited by Felix Thiele, R. E. Ashcroft, Friederike Wütscher.
by Thiele, Felix [editor.]; Ashcroft, R. E [editor.]; Wütscher, Friederike [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung, Schriftenreihe der Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH: 24Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.Description: XIII, 138 p. online resource.ISBN: 9783540269519.Subject(s): Engineering | Medicine | Ethics | Life sciences | Biomedical engineering | Engineering | Engineering, general | Ethics | Biomedicine general | Life Sciences, general | Biomedical EngineeringDDC classification: 620 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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? In recent years, bioethics has addressed many of the issues that arise in the context of globalisation: solidarity, conflict, and autonomy; human rights, liberty and toleration; the political and economic context of health care and inequalities in health; environmental and public health change. At the same time, bioethics has often been merely an agent of obscure political forces, and has been challenged for its emphasis on autonomy over considerations of justice. This study brings together scientists from the fields of medicine, law, and philosophy. The texts are the results of a conference the Europäische Akademie held in 2003. The group developed its thesis in open discussions of foundational and applied problems of bioethics from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.
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