Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues at Home and Abroad

This third edition collection provides a contemporary survey of current international issues in bioethics and human rights, with new chapters on reproductive justice, immigration politics, medical duty during pandemics, climate change implications for bioethics, acoustic weaponry technologies, and vaccine politics. It offers theoretical frameworks, three units on human rights, life and death, and public health, and includes cutting-edge analyses by international experts and thought-provoking case studies. Topics range from pediatric genomics to pandemic ethics, vaccine controversies, and more.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

This third edition collection offers a comprehensive and contemporary exploration of current international issues in bioethics and human rights, making it an essential resource for study across various social science disciplines. The book introduces new chapters on reproductive justice in the US, immigration politics and medical duty during pandemics, climate change implications for bioethics, acoustic weaponry technologies, and vaccine politics. After examining theoretical frameworks, the book delves into three units focusing on human rights, life and death, and public health, providing in-depth analysis of contemporary bioethics topics. Each unit includes cutting-edge analyses by international experts, thought-provoking case studies, discussion and essay prompts, and Internet and film resources. The topics covered range from pediatric genomics and abortion to medical tourism, human experimentation, climate change, the Havana syndrome, the care of aging family members, truth-telling, vulnerable human subjects, health equity, healthcare in ICE detention facilities, solitary confinement, euthanasia, lethal injections, and the harvesting of human organs. The updated and retained chapters make this book a valuable primary text, scholarly reference book, or course supplement. The contributors to this edition include Robert Baker, Tom L. Beauchamp, Michael Boylan, Marlene Brant Castellano, Cher Weixia Chen, Zenon Culverhouse, Bernard Gert, Søren Holm, Ilhan Ilkilic, Akiko Ito, Rita Manning, Kimberly Mutcherson, Peter F. Omonzejele, Pinit Ratanakul, Alison Dundes Renteln, Maya Sabatello, Udo Schüklenk, Edward H. Spence, Bradley P. Stoner, Scott Stonington, Peter Tagore Tan, Wanda Teays, Rosemarie Tong, Carlos Verdugo-Serna, Virginia L. Warren, and Cecilia (Lim) Wee.

Weight: 840g
Dimension: 180 x 255 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538188606
Edition number: Third Edition