American Bioethics
Crossing human rights and health law boundaries
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 4 November 2004
- ISBN 9780195169492
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size xx17 mm
- Weight 508 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book crosses artificial borders between bioethics and health law, and between American bioethics and international human rights. American isolationism is not tenable in the wake of scientific triumphs like decoding the human genome and civilizational tragedies like international terrorism. Using out imaginations and briging two universal codes together, the human genome and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, American bioethics can be reborn and help make the world a
better, healthier, place to live.
Long description:
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.
With references to classical and contemporary literature and cinema, Annas provides a lively text with many entertaining anecdotes that do not distract a reader from the serious, reformative policies he advocates. Their relevance extends far beyond US borders.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I: Bioethics and human rights
Bioethics and bioterrorism
Human rights and health
The man on the moon
The endangered human
The right to health
Capital punishment
II: Bioethics and health law
Conjoined twins
Patient rights
White coat police
Partial birth abortion
The shadowlands
Waste and longing
Concluding remarks
Appendix
