Bioethics in a Small World
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2005, 2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2005 |
| Series: | Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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