Dictionary 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).

Part 1: Organizations.- Chapter 1. ASBH.- Chapter 2. Council of Europe.- Chapter 3.  CIOMS.- Chapter 4. EGE.- Part 2: Documents.- Chapter 5. CBD.- Chapter 6. DoH.- Chapter 7. Doha Declaration.- Chapter 8. Earth Charter.- Part 3: Persons.- Chapter 9. Bankewski, Zbigniew.- Chapter 10. Hellegers, Andre.- Chapter 11. Jahr, Fritz.- Chapter 12. Ardo, Arvid.- Part 4: Topics.- Chapter 13. Ableism.- Chapter 14. Abortion.- Chapter 15. Abuse.- Chapter 16. Access to Healthcare.