Global Bioethics

Ronald M. Green is Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth Ethics Institute; Aine Donovan is Executive Director, Dartmouth Ethics Institute; Steven A. Jauss is Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

• PART 1 NORMATIVE BASES ; 1. Population-Level Bioethics: Mapping a New Agenda ; 2. What Is It Like to Be A Bird? Wikler and Brock on the Ethics of Population Health ; 3. The Evolving Norms of Medical Ethics ; 4. Convergent Trends in Modern Medical Ethics: Medicine-based Ethics and Human Rights ; PART 2 GLOBAL RESEARCH ETHICS ; 5. Just Research in an Unjust World: Can Harm Reduction Be an Acceptable Tool for Public Health Prevention Research? ; 6. Harm Reduction Research: Ethics and Compliance ; 7. Global Justice, Human Rights, and Health ; PART 3 BIOMEDICAL/BIOETHICAL COLLABORATIONS ; 8. Achieving Global Justice in Health Through Global Research Ethics: Supplementing Macklin's "Top-Down" Approach with one from the "Ground Up" ; 9. Harnessing Advanced Technologies for Global Health Equity ; PART 4 TRAINING PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL PHYSICIANS ; 10. Medical Education for a Changing World: On Professionalism in Medicine and Medical Education ; 11. Professionalism and Medical Education in the Developing World ; PART 5 EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH ; 12. Euthanasia: Not Just for Rich Countries ; PART 6 GLOBAL BIOETHICS AND RELIGION ; 13. Embryo as Epiphenomenon: Understanding our Global Stem Cell Debates ; 14. The Role and Influence of Religions in Bioethics ; PART 7 PUBLIC GLOBAL BIOETHICS CONSULTATIONS ; 15. Global Norms, Informed Consensus and Hypocrisy in Bioethics ; 16. Global Norms in Bioethics: Problems and Prospects

lucidly covers issues of conscience we will have to face in the years to come, and it proposes innovative theories and solutions that deserve to be carefully explored, critically discussed and perhaps implemented.