Global Justice and Bioethics

Name: Global Justice and Bioethics
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ISBN: 9780195379907

ISBN-10: 019537990X

ISBN-13: 9780195379907

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joseph Millum, Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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Despite the massive scale of global inequalities, until recently few political philosophers or bioethicists addressed their ethical implications. Questions of justice were thought to be primarily internal to the nation state. Over the last decade or so, there has been an explosion of interest in the philosophical issues surrounding global justice. These issues are of direct relevance to bioethics. The links between poverty and health imply that we cannot separate questions of global health from questions about fair distribution of global resources and the institutions governing the world order. Similarly, as increasing numbers of medical trials are conducted in the developing world,…

Book details

List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.49" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Contributors



Introduction




Ideal Theory



Global Bioethics and Political Theory




Is There a Human Right to Essential Pharmaceuticals? The Global Common, the Intellectual Common, and the Possibility of Private Intellectual Property




Global Justice and Health: The Basis of the Global Health Duty




Justice in the Diffusion of Innovation




The Relationship Between Ideal and Non-ideal Theory



Non-ideal Theory: A Taxonomy with Illustration




The Bioethics of Second-Best




Non-ideal Theory



Global Justice and the "Standard of Care" Debates




International NGO Health Programs in a Non-ideal World: Imperialism, Respect, and Procedural Justice




Global-Health Impact Labels




The Obligations of Researchers Amidst Injustice or Deprivation



Index