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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195390296

ISBN-139780195390292

eBay Product ID (ePID)73058821

Product Key Features

Number of Pages264 Pages

Publication NameAmerican Bioethics : Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

SubjectEthics, Medical Law & Legislation, Ethics & Moral Philosophy

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLaw, Philosophy, Medical

AuthorGeorge J. Annas

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight28 Oz

Item Length6.1 in

Item Width9.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsWith 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.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal174/.957/0973

Table Of ContentIntroductionPart I: Bioethics and Human Rights1. Bioethics and Bioterrorism2. Human Rights and Health3. The Man on the Moon4. The Endangered Human5. The Right to Health6. Capital PunishmentPart II: Bioethics and Health Law7. Conjoined Twins8. Patient Rights9. White Coat Police10. Partial Birth Abortion11. The Shadowlands12. Waste and LongingConcluding Remarks: Bioethics, Health Law, and Human Rights Boundary CrossingsAppendix A: Universal Declaration of Human RightsAppendix B: International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsAppendix C: International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural RightsAppendix D: The Nuremberg CodeNotesIndex

SynopsisThis 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberK3240.A56 2009