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 …

Contemporary bioethics, now roughly 40 years old as a discipline, originated in the United
States with a primarily Anglo-American cultural ethos. It continues to be professionalized …

Among the more prominent peculiarities of our politics in recent years is that something
called" bioethics" has become a key conservative priority The bioethics movement has been …

American law, not philosophy or medicine, is the major force shaping American bioethics.
This is both because law at its best fosters individual rights, equality, and justice, and …

Rapid advances in genetics and medicine present both opportunities and threats to the
advancement of human rights and public health in this era of globalization. While such …

In Beyond a Western Bioethics, physicians Angeles Tan Alora and Josephine M. Lumitao
join eight other contributors to provide a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues …

In recent years, scholars have begun to lay the groundwork to justify a distinct application of
ethics to the field of public health. They have highlighted important features that differentiate …

The relationship between sociology and bioethics has been an uneasy one. It has been
described as contentious and adversarial, and at least some of the sociologists who have …

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise
troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to …

Bioethics was long focused on ethical issues arising in the relationships and interactions of
individual patients and their physicians, as well as individual investigators and their …