Bioethics in a Small World

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thiele, Felix (Editor), Ashcroft, R. E. (Editor), Wütscher, Friederike (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung, Schriftenreihe der Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH, 24
• Subjects: Engineering.; Ethics.; Life sciences.; Biomedical engineering.; Engineering, general.; Biomedicine general.; Life Sciences, general.; Biomedical Engineering.

The world seems ever smaller and ever quicker: environmental, public health, industrial and cultural processes operate ever more on a global, rather than a local scale. Does this process, sometimes known as globalisation, draw us closer together, or drive us further apart, from a moral point of view...

Table of Contents:

• Cultural Rationality and Moral Principles
• Morality and Culture: Are Ethics Culture-Dependent?
• Neither Golden Nugget nor Frankenstein. The need to Re-embed Food Biotechnologies in Sociocultural Contexts
• Beyond GM Foods: Genomics, Biotechnology and Global Health Equity
• Patents on Biomaterial — A New Colonialism or a Means for Technology Transfer and Benefit-Sharing?
• From the Corporeal to the Informational: Exploring the Scope of Benefit Sharing Agreements and their Applicability to Sequence Databases
• Access to Essential Drugs, Human Rights and Global Justice
• Access to Essential Drugs: the Ethical Challenge of Allocating Obligations
• Why is it Morally Wrong to Clone a Human Being? How to Evaluate Arguments of Biopolitics, Biomorality, and Bioethics
• Bioethics and (Public) Policy Advice.