Henk ten Have

Broschiertes Buch

Global Bioethics

An introduction

Beschreibung

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. Global bioethics is not a finished product that can simply be applied to solve global problems, but it is the ongoing result of interaction and exchange between local practices and global discourse. It combines recognition of differences and respect for cultural diversity with convergence towards common perspectives and shared values. The book examines the nature of global problems as well as the type of responses that are needed, in order to exemplify the substance of global bioethics. It discusses the ethical frameworks that are available for global discourse and shows how these are transformed into global governance mechanisms and practices.

Autor

Henk ten Have has been Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA (2010-2019). He studied medicine and philosophy in the Netherlands and worked as professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Universities of Maastricht and Nijmegen. From 2003 until 2010 he has joined UNESCO in Paris as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since 2019 he is Emeritus Professor, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, and since 2021 Research professor at the Faculty of Bioethics in the Universidad Anahuac Mexico. He is editor of the International Journal of Ethics Education, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. His recent book publications are Global Bioethics; An Introduction (2016), Vulnerability: Challenging bioethics (2016), Global education in bioethics (2018), Wounded planet. How declining biodiversity endangers health and how bioethics can help (2019), Dictionary of global bioethics (with Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, 2021), Bioethics, healthcare and the soul (with Renzo Pegoraro, 2022), Bizarre Bioethics - Ghosts, monsters and pilgrims (2022), The Covid-19 pandemic and global bioethics (2022). He has edited the Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (2016) and Global education in bioethics (2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781138124103
• ISBN-10: 1138124109
• Artikelnr.: 43749652

Rezensionen

"Global bioethics is eloquent in its critique of the moral myopia of main stream bioethics and is a must for any reader seriously concerned with the role bioethics should play in the face of globalization."-Jan Helge Solbakk, University of Oslo, Norway

"Unlike other authors of the Northern hemisphere, the meaning of bioethics for Henk ten Have goes beyond the biomedical field. The inclusion in the framework proposed by the author of topics related to health care, social inclusion and preservation of the environment provides a new historical mark that puts this book in the pleasant academic surprises of this early 21st century." -Volnei Garrafa, University of Brasília, Brazil

"A comprehensive and penetrating account of how Bioethics could be extended to become Global Bioethics through an ambitious and visionary ethical and multi-disciplinary discourse. Addressing biological, social, political and ecological determinants of health from bio-centric and eco-centric perspectives is offered as a new bridge towards sustainable improvement in the health of people and our planet."-Solomon Benatar, University of Cape Town, South Africa; University of Toronto, Canada