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American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries
George J. Annas
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paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Bioethics was "born in the USA" and the values American bioethics embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice. This book crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for dominance by exploring attempts to articulate universal principles based on international human rights. The isolationism of bioethics in the US is not tenable in the wake of scientific triumphs like decoding the human genome, and civilizational tragedies like international terrorism. Annas argues that by crossing boundaries which have artificially separated bioethics and health law from the international human rights movement, American bioethics ... Read more
Bioethics was "born in the USA" and the values American bioethics embrace are based on American law, including liberty and justice. This book crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for dominance by exploring attempts to articulate universal principles based on international human rights. The isolationism of bioethics in the US is not tenable in the wake of scientific triumphs like decoding the human genome, and civilizational tragedies like international terrorism. Annas argues that by crossing boundaries which have artificially separated bioethics and health law from the international human rights movement, American bioethics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A. United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195390292
SKU
V9780195390292
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Reviews for American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries
With references to classical and contemporary literature and cinema, Annas provides a lively text with many entertaining anecdotes that do not distract a reader from the serious, reformative policies he advocates. Their relevance extends far beyond US borders.
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