American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law BoundariesOxford University Press, 28 oct. 2004 - 264 pagini 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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... Force members fought off overwhelmingly larger Somali forces after two of their Black Hawk heli- copters had been shot down . Eighteen American soldiers died in the battle . Two observations stand out for me , one from the finely ...
... Force members fought off overwhelmingly larger Somali forces after two of their Black Hawk heli- copters had been shot down . Eighteen American soldiers died in the battle . Two observations stand out for me , one from the finely ...
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... force medical treatment on Americans in the event of a bioterrorist at- tack, and the government's offer of an investigational anthrax vaccine to those potentially exposed in the post-9/11 anthrax attacks. Prisoners of War The treatment ...
... force medical treatment on Americans in the event of a bioterrorist at- tack, and the government's offer of an investigational anthrax vaccine to those potentially exposed in the post-9/11 anthrax attacks. Prisoners of War The treatment ...
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... force POWs to divulge more than their names, ranks, and serial numbers is prob- ably the main one the United States sought to avoid. The United States has endured a firestorm of international protests about the conditions of the prison ...
... force POWs to divulge more than their names, ranks, and serial numbers is prob- ably the main one the United States sought to avoid. The United States has endured a firestorm of international protests about the conditions of the prison ...
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... forces at much higher risk of not having the Geneva Conventions applied to them when captured by an- other country. During the three-week Iraq war in 2003, when American soldiers were captured, the president insisted that Iraqi military ...
... forces at much higher risk of not having the Geneva Conventions applied to them when captured by an- other country. During the three-week Iraq war in 2003, when American soldiers were captured, the president insisted that Iraqi military ...
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... force to lies and untruths. As a general rule, everyone is more inclined to believe the bad than the good. Everyone is inclined to magnify the bad in some measure. . . .”15 This certainly seems to be the case here, and the authors of ...
... force to lies and untruths. As a general rule, everyone is more inclined to believe the bad than the good. Everyone is inclined to magnify the bad in some measure. . . .”15 This certainly seems to be the case here, and the authors of ...
Cuprins
BIOETHICS AND HEALTH LAW | 79 |
Bioethics Health Law and Human Rights Boundary Crossings | 159 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 167 |
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 175 |
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights | 195 |
The Nuremberg Code | 205 |
Notes | 207 |
Index | 237 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries George J. Annas Previzualizare limitată - 2009 |
American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries George J. Annas Previzualizare limitată - 2004 |
American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries George J. Annas Vizualizare fragmente - 2005 |
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