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Everyday Bioethics - Reflections on Bioethical Choices in Daily Life

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Informationen zum Autor Giovanni Berlinguer (Author) Zusammenfassung Suggests a different perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society, based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns people from around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Procreation and Birth Procreation may become a free choice of individuals. Obstacles created by society and facilities provided by technologies are discusses, together with the status of embryos and of human cloning. Chapter 2. Population, Ethics, and Equity The population policies cannot be defined on the basis of the interest of the state. Human rights, the value of pluralism and the search for equity are the principles of democracy in the demographic choices. Chapter 3. Work and Health: Foundations and Ethical Conflicts The relationships between health and work lies at the interface between biology and ethics. The conflicting interests and values in this field are discussed in their historical development and perspectives. Chapter 4. The Human Body: From Slavery to the Biomarket Every part of the human body, from DNA to gametes to organs, is in danger to be transformed into a commodity. A comparison is presented between the arguments put forward in favour of slavery and of the biomarket. Chapter 5. Global Health After 1492, when the "microbial unification of the world" begun, the interchange of diseases and health has become an international issue. The main contradiction is now between the growing possibilities of medicine and the deepening of inequities between and inside the countries. Afterword Index

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Authors Giovanni Berlinguer
Publisher Baywood pub co
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.06.2003
 
EAN 9780895032256
ISBN 978-0-89503-225-6
No. of pages 174
Series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning

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