The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

2009-01-01
The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

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  • Author: H. ten Have
  • Publisher: UNESCO
  • ISBN: 923104088X
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 371

In October 2005, UNESCO Member States adopted by acclamation the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. For the first time in the history of bioethics, some 190 countries committed themselves and the international community to respect and apply fundamental ethical principles related to medicine, the life sciences and associated technologies. This publication provides a new impetus to the dissemination of the Declaration, and is part of the organisation's continuous effort to contribute to the understanding of its principles worldwide. The authors, who were almost all involved in the elaboration of the text of the Declaration, were asked to respond on each article: Why was it included? What does it mean? How can it be applied? Their responses shed light on the historical background of the text and its evolution throughout the drafting process. They also provide a reflection on its relevance to previous declarations and bioethical literature, and its potential interpretation and application in challenging and complex bioethical debates.

International Biolaw and Shared Ethical Principles

2018
International Biolaw and Shared Ethical Principles

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  • Author: Cinzia Caporale
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781472483980
  • Category : Bioethics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This book provides an overview of the ethical and legal developments which have occurred in bioethics and human rights. The work analyzes the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights from an ethical and legal perspective, commenting on its implementation and discussing the role of non-binding norms in international bioethics.

The Principle of Respect for Human Vulnerability and Personal Integrity: Report of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC)

The Principle of Respect for Human Vulnerability and Personal Integrity: Report of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC)

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: UNESCO
  • ISBN: 9230011118
  • Category : Bioethics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 47

Global Bioethics: The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee

2015-10-22
Global Bioethics: The Impact of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee

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  • Author: Alireza Bagheri
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319226509
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

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.

Casebook on Human Dignity and Human Rights

2011
Casebook on Human Dignity and Human Rights

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  • Publisher: UNESCO
  • ISBN: 9231042025
  • Category : Bioethics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

Negotiating Bioethics

2013-08-15
Negotiating Bioethics

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  • Author: Adèle Langlois
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136237003
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 221

A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme was established to address such issues in 1993. Since then, it has adopted three declarations on human genetics and bioethics (1997, 2003 and 2005), set up numerous training programmes around the world and debated the need for an international convention on human reproductive cloning. Negotiating Bioethics presents Langlois' research on the negotiation and implementation of the three declarations and the human cloning debate, based on fieldwork carried out in Kenya, South Africa, France and the UK, among policy-makers, geneticists, ethicists, civil society representatives and industry professionals. The book examines whether the UNESCO Bioethics Programme is an effective forum for (a) decision-making on bioethics issues and (b) ensuring ethical practice. Considering two different aspects of the UNESCO Bioethics Programme – deliberation and implementation – at international and national levels, Langlois explores: how relations between developed and developing countries can be made more equal who should be involved in global level decision-making and how this should proceed how overlap between initiatives can be avoided what can be done to improve the implementation of international norms by sovereign states how far universal norms can be contextualized what impact the efficacy of national level governance has at international level

The Right to Science

2021-12-02
The Right to Science

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  • Author: Helle Porsdam
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108478255
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 323

The first serious, extended effort to use a human rights-based approach to address the scientific issues affecting society and the often-neglected human right to science.

Report of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC) on Social Responsibility and Health

2010
Report of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC) on Social Responsibility and Health

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  • Author: UNESCO
  • Publisher: UNESCO
  • ISBN: 9231041703
  • Category : Bioethics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 69

Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law 2e

2020-10-13
Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law 2e

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  • Author: Ames Dhai
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781485130727
  • Category : Medical ethics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

The book is intended to be an introductory guide for healthcare practitioners, legal practitioners, healthcare students and law students who are concerned with the delivery of healthcare services in South Africa. The book emphasises the ethical and legal aspects of healthcare in the country while making references to international human rights and ethical standards applicable to healthcare services. As the book is a guide, it does not deal exhaustively with the topics discussed. Instead it aims to give healthcare and legal practitioners some general guidelines. New edition update: - an updated ethics chapter that includes a robust section on African indigenous values in the context of health care. - a chapter on universal health care coverage and the NHI. - the legislation need to be reviewed and updated. - a section on alternate dispute resolution. - the section on research also requires updating. - the case studies also need to be made more recent to include current contextually relevant issues like the Life Esidimeni Tragedy. Table of contents: Part 1: Introduction to Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law: Principles and Practice - Background Chapter 1 Ethical concepts, theories and principles and their application to healthcare Chapter 2. Codes of healthcare ethics Chapter 3. Health and human rights Chapter 4. Health law - the basics Part 2: Specific Topics Chapter 5. Professionalism and the healthcare practitioner-patient relationship Chapter 6. Consent Chapter 7. Confidentiality Chapter 8. Medical malpractice and professional negligence Chapter 9. Reproductive health Chapter 10. Issues in genetics Chapter 11. Use of human tissue Chapter 12. End of life issues Chapter 13. HIV and AIDS Chapter 14. Resource allocation Chapter 15. Business ethics - the healthcare context Chapter 16. Human health and the environment Chapter 17. The ethics of research

Rethinking Health Care Ethics

2018-08-02
Rethinking Health Care Ethics

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  • Author: Stephen Scher
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811308306
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

​The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in clinical health care without needing to rely on the expertise of bioethicists. The early chapters review the history of bioethics and explain how academics from outside health care came to dominate the field of health care ethics, both in professional schools and in clinical health care. The middle chapters elaborate a series of concepts, drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, that set the stage for developing a framework that builds upon the individual moral experience of health professionals, that explains the discontinuities between the demands of bioethics and the experience and perceptions of health professionals, and that enables the articulation of a full theory of clinical ethics with clinicians themselves as the foundation. Against that background, the first of three chapters on professional education presents a general framework for teaching clinical ethics; the second discusses how to integrate ethics into formal health care curricula; and the third addresses the opportunities for teaching available in clinical settings. The final chapter, "Empowering Clinicians", brings together the various dimensions of the argument and anticipates potential questions about the framework developed in earlier chapters.