Teaching global bioethics

Bioethics

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 432-446

  Dwyer, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHICIST; ETHICS; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BIOETHICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JUSTICE; LAW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; METHODOLOGY; POLITICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEACHING; WAR;

EID: 0142240112     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8519.00359     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. All these figures are from: The State of the World's Children. 2001. New York. UNICEF.
2. See, for example: World Health Organization. 2000. The World Health Report 2000. Geneva.
3. For the latest figures, see the UNAIDS website: www.unaids.org. It is possible to find different estimates in the literature, but I do not want to quibble about the numbers. By any estimate, the problem and suffering are enormous.
4. See the presidential addresses by Daniel Wikler, Ruth Macklin and Solomon Benatar. D. Wikler. Presidential Address: Bioethics and Social Responsibility. Bioethics 1997; 11: 185-192. R. Macklin. Bioethics and Public Policy in the Next Millennium: Presidential Address. Bioethics 2001; 15: 373-381. S. Benatar. Presidential Address: Bioethics: Power and Injustice. Bioethics 2003; 17:387-398.
5. See the presidential addresses by Daniel Wikler, Ruth Macklin and Solomon Benatar. D. Wikler. Presidential Address: Bioethics and Social Responsibility. Bioethics 1997; 11: 185-192. R. Macklin. Bioethics and Public Policy in the Next Millennium: Presidential Address. Bioethics 2001; 15: 373-381. S. Benatar. Presidential Address: Bioethics: Power and Injustice. Bioethics 2003; 17:387-398.
6. See the presidential addresses by Daniel Wikler, Ruth Macklin and Solomon Benatar. D. Wikler. Presidential Address: Bioethics and Social Responsibility. Bioethics 1997; 11: 185-192. R. Macklin. Bioethics and Public Policy in the Next Millennium: Presidential Address. Bioethics 2001; 15: 373-381. S. Benatar. Presidential Address: Bioethics: Power and Injustice. Bioethics 2003; 17:387-398.
7. Wikler, op. cit. note 4
8. J. Dwyer. Babel, Justice, and Democracy: Reflections on a Shortage of Interpreters at a Public Hospital. Hastings Center Report 2001; 31: 31-36, at 31-32.
9. P. Singer. 1993. Practical Ethics. Second edition. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press: 218-246.
10. A. Sen. 1981. Poverty and Famines. Oxford. Clarendon Press. J. Dreze & A. Sen. 1989. Hunger and Public Action. Oxford. Clarendon Press.
11. A. Sen. 1981. Poverty and Famines. Oxford. Clarendon Press. J. Dreze & A. Sen. 1989. Hunger and Public Action. Oxford. Clarendon Press.
12. J. Rawls. 1999. The Law of Peoples. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press: 108.
13. The following figures are from: The State of the World's Children 2001, op. cit. note 1.
14. K.R. Thankappan. Some Health Implications of Globalization in Kerala, India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001; 79: 892-893.
15. Rawls, op. cit. note 9, p. 106.
16. P. Singer. Famine, Affluence, and Morality. Philosophy and Public Affairs 1972; 1: 229-243.
17. Singer, op. cit. note 7, pp. 232-234.
18. Rawls, op. cit. note 9, p. 117.
19. For an example of when more is not better, see: D.C. Goodman et al. The Relation between the Availability of Neonatal Intensive Care and Neonatal Mortality. New England Journal of Medicine 2002; 346: 1538-1544. For a discussion of social determinants of health, see: M. Marmot & R. Wilkinson, eds. 2000. Social Determinants of Health. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
20. For an example of when more is not better, see: D.C. Goodman et al. The Relation between the Availability of Neonatal Intensive Care and Neonatal Mortality. New England Journal of Medicine 2002; 346: 1538-1544. For a discussion of social determinants of health, see: M. Marmot & R. Wilkinson, eds. 2000. Social Determinants of Health. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
21. F. McLellen. Obesity Rising to Alarming Levels around the World. The Lancet 2002; 359: 1412.
22. M. Evans et al. Globalization, Diet, and Health: An Example from Tonga. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001; 79: 856-862.
23. Ibid, p. 859.
24. See: Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Book I, Chapters 1-2. Aristotle. Politics. Book I, Chapter 1.
25. See: Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Book I, Chapters 1-2. Aristotle. Politics. Book I, Chapter 1.
26. Aristotle. Politics. 1252b.