Dictionary of Global Bioethics (eBook)

This Dictionary presents a broad range of topics relevant in present-day global bioethics. With more than 500 entries, this dictionary covers organizations working in the field of global bioethics, international documents concerning bioethics, personalities that have played a role in the development of global bioethics, as well as specific topics in the field.The book is not only useful for students and professionals in global health activities, but can also serve as a basic tool that explains relevant ethical notions and terms. 

The dictionary furthers the ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for difference and concern with what human beings- and specifically patients - have in common, regardless of their backgrounds, hometowns, religions, gender, etc. Global problems such as pandemic diseases, disasters, lack of care and medication, homelessness and displacement call for global responses.This book demonstrates that a moral vision of global health is necessary and it helps to quickly understand the basic ideas of global bioethics.

AUTHOR BIOS:
Henk ten Have studied medicine and philosophy at Leiden Univer­sity, the Netherlands (MD 1976; PhD 1983). He worked as researcher (Pathology Laborato­ry, University of Leiden, as practicing physician in the Municipal Health Services (Rotterdam) before being appointed as Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Medicine and Fac­ulty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, and subsequently as Professor of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Department of Eth­ics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2003 he joined UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since 2010 he is Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA. His latest books are: Global Bioethics; An Introduction (2016) and Vulnerability; Challenging Bioethics (2016).

Maria do Céu Patrão Neves studied philosophy at Lisbon University, Portugal, and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (PhD 1991), and bioethics at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and is currently Full Professor of Ethics at the University of the Azores, Portugal. She also teaches regularly in the Bioethics Master's degree of the School of Medicine of Lisbon, and in the Bioethics PhD's degree of the Bioethics Institute (Catholic University). She was consultant on Ethics of Life for the President of the Portuguese Republic, and a Member of the National Ethics Committee, and of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics. She is Member of the 'Global Ethics Observatory', UNESCO, and an expert on Ethics for the European Commission. Her latest book is Brave New Bioethics (2016), and she is currently leading the publication of a 12 volume collection on Applied Ethics (2016-2018).