Global Bioethics: Issues of Conscience for the Twenty-First Century

by Steven A. Jauss and Aine Donovan

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. Ethical questions that once arose only in the narrow context of the physician-patient relationship in relatively prosperous societies are now being raised across societies, cultures, and continents. For example, what should be the "standard of care" for clinical trials of medical innovations in poorer countries? Are researchers obligated to compare new therapies or drugs with the best...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199546592
• ISBN13: 9780199546596
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"