Bioethics around the globe

mehrbändiges Werk

Object Details

• Extent: XXXIV, 294 S. ; 25 cm
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: ed. by Catherine Myser ; Literaturangaben und Index ; Bioethics as missionary work : the export of Western ethics to developing countries ; Facing up to the hard problems : Western bioethics in the Eastern land of India ; Capacity building in developing world bioethics : perspectives on biomedicine and biomedical ethics in contemporary Sri Lanka ; French bioethics : the rhetoric of universality and the ethics of medical responsibility ; The social forms and functions of bioethics in the United Kingdom ; Bioethics between two worlds : the politics of ethics in Central Europe ; Bioethics in Chile and the need for Latin American bioethics ; Bioethics in Costa Rica : origins and challenges ; The social functions of bioethics in South Africa ; Toward an African Ubuntu/Umunthu bioethics in Malawi in the context of globalization ; Reflections on bioethics in China : interactions between bioethics and society ; The dominion of bioethics : nationalism and Canadian bioethics ; Negotiating Islamic identity in Egypt through bioethics : contesting 'the West' and Saudi Arabia ; Bioethics in Australia : on politics, power, and the rise of the Christian right ; Bioethics in the United States : contested terrain for competing visions of American liberalism

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Bioethik ; Bioethik ; Globalisierung ; Bioethik ; Philosophische Anthropologie ; Soziokultureller Faktor

Contributors, Places and Time

• Contributor: Myser, Catherine
• Published: Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press , 2011

Further information

• Sponsorship: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• DOI: doi:10.25673/112807
• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-94764
• Last update: 04.06.2025, 1:15 PM CEST