Title American bioethics : crossing human rights and health law boundaries / George J. Annas

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) Contents INTRODUCTION; I.BIOETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS; 1.BIOETHICS AND BIOTERRORISM; 2.HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEALTH; 3.THE MAN ON THE MOON; 4.THE ENDANGERED HUMAN; 5.THE RIGHT TO HEALTH; 6.CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; II.BIOETHICS AND HEALTH LAW; 7.CONJOINED TWINS; 8.PATIENT RIGHTS; 9.WHITE COAT POLICE; 10.PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION; 11.THE SHADOWLANDS; 12.WASTE AND LONGING Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-236) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects Medical laws and legislation -- Moral and ethical aspects Medical laws and legislation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States Bioethics -- United States Medical laws and legislation. Human rights. Bioethical Issues -- legislation and jurisprudence -- United States Bioethical Issues -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States Legislation, Medical -- United States Bioethical Issues -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States Legislation, Medical Human Rights -- United States Bioethical Issues -- legislation & jurisprudence Legislation, Medical -- United States Human Rights -- United States Human Rights BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. Medical laws and legislation Human rights Bioethics Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects Bioethik Debatte Recht SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States USA Form Electronic book LC no. 2004045576 ISBN 9780199748099 0199748098 1423763408 9781423763406 9780195169492 0195169492 1280534451 9781280534454 0195390296 9780195390292 1602568472 9781602568471

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