American Bioethics: Crossing human rights and health law boundaries - Rilegato

Annas, George J.

 
9780195169492: American Bioethics: Crossing human rights and health law boundaries
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ISBN 10: 0195169492 ISBN 13: 9780195169492
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2004

Sinossi

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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Recensione

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. (The Lancet, Vol 366)

L'autore

George Annas is Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair, Health Law Department at the Boston University School of Public Health.

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Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0195169492
ISBN 13 
9780195169492
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
240
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9780195390292: AMERICAN BIOETHICS CROSSING HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEALTH LAW BOUNDARIES: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0195390296 ISBN 13:  9780195390292
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2009
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