American Bioethics : Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199748099
- 174/.957/0973
- K3240.A56 2005
Intro -- 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 -- Concluding Remarks: Bioethics, Health Law, and Human Rights Boundary Crossings -- Appendix A: Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Appendix B: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Appendix C: International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights -- Appendix D: The Nuremberg Code -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
This 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.
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