Bioethics and Human Rights

Wanda Teays is philosophy professor emerita at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles.Alison Dundes Renteln is professor of political science at the University of Southern California.Together, Teays and Renteln have also edited The Ethical University: Transforming Higher Education.

• IntroductionPART I: Theoretical Perspectives1. A Global Ethical Framework for BioethicsBernard Gert2. The Compatibility of Universal Morality, Particular Moralities, and MulticulturalismTom L. Beauchamp3. Culture and Ethical Aspects of Truth-Telling in a Value Pluralistic SocietyIlhan Ilkilic4. Lost in TranslationSøren Holm5. Issues in Global Health EthicsUdo Schüklenk6. Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Global PerspectiveAkiko ItoInternet ResourcesDiscussion TopicsPART II: Human Rights7. Bioethics and Human Rights: A Historical PerspectiveRobert Baker8. Medical Tourism: Justice, Autonomy, and PowerVirginia L. Warren9. Solitary ConfinementWanda Teays10. Compensation For Research Related Injury For A Typically Ignored Social HarmPeter F. Omonzejele11. Ethics of Aboriginal ResearchMarlene Brant Castellano12. The Human Rights Dimensions of Virginity Restoration SurgeryAlison Dundes RentelnInternet Resources Discussion TopicsPART III: Life and Death13. Pediatrics Genomics: Current Dilemmas and a Messy FutureMaya Sabatello 14. The Abortion Debate in the 21st Century and Substantive Due ProcessMichael Boylan15. The Future of Reproductive Justice in the United States After DobbsKimberly Mutcherson16. Euthanasia Could be a Medical DutyCarlos Verdugo Serna 17. Is There a Global Bioethics? End of Life in Thailand and the Case for Local DifferenceScott Stonington and Pinit Ratanakul18. Confucianism and Killing versus Letting DieCecilia Wee19. Global versus Local: The Use of Lethal Injection in ChinaCher Weixia ChenInternet ResourcesDiscussion TopicsPART IV: Public Health 20. A Bioethics for Global Mental HealthZenon Culverhouse21. Long-Term Care for Elderly People Globally: A Feminist PerspectiveRosemarie Tong22. Reconsidering Acoustic AttacksAlison Dundes Renteln23. Climate Change and BioethicsPeter Tagore Tan24. Immigration Detention and the Right to Health Care in Light of the COVID-19 PandemicRita Manning25. Ethics in a Pandemic: A Rights-Centered FoundationEdward H. Spence26. Is There a Duty to Treat in a Pandemic?Wanda Teays27. Vaccine Nationalism and Equity: Bioethical ConsiderationsBradley P. StonerInternet ResourcesDiscussion TopicsAPPENDICES Appendix A. Essay QuestionsAppendix B. Case Analysis TopicsAppendix C. Bioethics in FilmIndexAbout the Contributors

This new and timely edition of an emerging classical volume on bioethics and human rights meets most expectations. However, this new iteration does not replace, but rather complements, previous editions. While the book still includes well-crafted, fundamental pieces that both support and challenge the notion of global bioethics, epitomized by the unperishable trio of Gert, Beauchamp, and Holm, this edition includes several new articles that address previously missing questions and approach more voguish issues. Culture and truth-telling in medicine and the rights of persons with disabilities count among the former, while a number of COVID-related articles belong to the latter. As in previous editions, the book has further readings and materials, specific questions for discussion, essays, and representative cases for didactic exercises. For those who are interested in the timeless problems of biomedicine and human rights, this volume delivers, yet this reviewer recommends referencing previous editions as well. Readers who are seeking more recent problems in health care and human rights will welcome it, although many journals have already published similar materials. This edition will have a shorter shelf life than its predecessors, which is the fate of all timely publications. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, practitioners.