The panorama of bioethical problems is different today. Patients travel to Thailand for fast
surgery; commercial surrogate mothers in India deliver babies to parents in rich countries; …

The Handbook of Global Bioethics is published at the right time for the progressive
development of bioethics. Started as a discourse critical of medical professional ethics, the …

This work presents the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of all relevant issues
and topics in contemporary global bioethics. Now that bioethics has entered into a novel …

The Dictionary of Global Bioethics seeks to clarify terms, concepts, arguments, perspectives,
and theories used in the emerging field of global bioethics. Bioethics emerged in North …

This article discusses what 'global bioethics' means today and what features make bioethical
research 'global'. The article provides a historical view of the development of the field of …

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This paper considers the possibility and desirability of global ethics in light of the claim that
'global ethics' in any form is not global, but simply the imposition of one form of local ethics …

Millions of people in various parts of the world and within each country are presently
surviving in categories described as" mere,"" miserable,"" idealistic,"" irresponsible," and" …

Within the latter half of the 30-year history of bioethics there has been an increasing
pressure to address bioethical issues globally. Bioethics is not traditionally a theory-based …

Modern bioethics was born in the West and thus reflects, not surprisingly, the traditions of
Western moral philosophy and political and social theory. When the work of bioethics was …