Overview
- Presents comprehensive bioethical issues contributed by the UNESCO IBC
- Contains contributions by scholars who developed universal declarations and reports
- Applicable in the field of both bioethics and international law
- Provides a unique presentation of practical issues and challenges in international bioethical norm setting ?
Part of the book series: Advancing Global Bioethics (AGBIO, volume 5)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The UNESCO International Bioethics Committee is an international body that sets standards in the field of bioethics. This collection represents the contributions of the IBC to global bioethics. The IBC is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. Currently, some of the topics of the IBC contributions have been discussed in the bioethics literature, mostly journal articles. However, this is a unique contribution by the scholars who developed these universal declarations and reports. The contributors have not only provided a scholarly up to date discussion of their research topics, but as members of the IBC they have also discussed specific practical challenges in the development of such international documents. This book will be suited to academics within bioethics, health care policy and international law.
Reviews
“Edited by Bagheri, Moreno and Semplici, this book goes beyond tracing the impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee’s work and seeks to present a vision of how global bioethics should emerge as it continues to evolve. … In trying to record the impact of UNESCO’s international legal instruments, the different chapters provide an insight into the dynamics of international negotiations – among international agencies, national governments, academics and other stakeholders -- that have gone on to promote global bioethics and effectively ensure that this is a process of continuing conversation rather than a finished product.” (Prof. Leonardo D. de Castro, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Bioethics Review, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore)
“Bagheri, Moreno and Simplici are to be congratulated for bringing together a historic volume of essays on the 20 years of the UNESCO Bioethics Committee. The work helps to show that bioethics is not a Northern pursuit, but truly a global one; that it is not an abstract pursuit, but truly a practical one; and that it matters in the work of governments around the world. UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova captures well the significance of the work when she says: "In the last twenty years, I believe this is perhaps UNESCO’s greatest achievement – our relentless determination to link ethics with science ... .” (Peter Singer OC, CEO Grand Challenges Canada)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Bioethics: The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
Editors: Alireza Bagheri, Jonathan D. Moreno, Stefano Semplici
Series Title: Advancing Global Bioethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22650-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22649-1Published: 04 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37138-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22650-7Published: 22 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2212-652X
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 201
Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law