Bioethics in a Small World

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
• Themen: Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse Technologie, allgemein Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein
• ISBN: 9783642062568
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2010
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer Spektrum
• Herausgegeben von: Felix Thiele, R. E. Ashcroft