Title: American bioethics : crossing human rights and health law boundaries /
Authors: Annas, George J.
Publisher: Oxford Unversity Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Legislation, Medical; Human Rights; Bioethical Issues legislation & jurisprudence; Bioethics United States; Human rights Moral and ethical aspects; Medical laws and legislation Moral and ethical aspects United States.; Medical laws and legislation Moral and ethical aspects.; Bioéthique Droit États-Unis.; Droits de l'homme (Droit international) Aspect moral.; Médecine Droit Aspect moral États-Unis.; Médecine Droit Aspect moral.; Bioethical Issues legislation & jurisprudence United States.; Human Rights United States.; Legislation, Medical United States.; United States
Abstract: This text crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for dominance by exploring attempts to articulate universal principles based on international human rights. The isolationism of bioethics in the USA is not tenable in the wake of scientific triumphs like decoding the human genome, and civilizational tragedies like international terrorism. Annas argues that by crossing boundaries which have artificially separated bioethics and health law from the international human rights movement, American bioethics can be reborn as a global force for good, instead of serving mainly the purposes of U.S. academics. This thesis is explored in a variety of international contexts such as terrorism and genetic engineering, and in U.S. domestic disputes such as patient rights and market medicine. The citizens of the world have created two universal codes: science has sequenced the human genome and the United Nations has produced the Unive.
Contents: I. Bioethics and human rights -- 1. Bioethics and bioterrorism -- 2. Human rights and bioethics -- 3. The man on the moon -- 4. The endangered human -- 5. The right to health -- 6. Moral progress -- II. Bioethics and health law -- 7. Conjoined twins -- 8. Patient rights -- 9. White coat police -- 10. Abortion -- 11. The shadowlands -- 12. Waste and longing. -- Concluding remarks : bioethics, health law, and human rights boundary crossings -- Appendix A. Universal declaration of human rights -- Appendix B. International covenant on civil and political rights -- Appendix C. International covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights -- Appendix D. The Nuremberg Code.