Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care

by Weisstub, David N.; Diaz-pintos, Guillermo

• ISBN13: 9781402058400
• ISBN10: 1402058403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Autonomy and Human Rights in Healthcare: An International Perspective is a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. A pioneer in the field of multidisciplinary research, having integrated major theological and philosophical traditions in the west with modern science, Thomasma was a role model to the authors who have devoted essays to his major avenues of inquiry. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Contributors

Introduction

Health Care, Human Rights, And Social Policy Health Care, Human Rights, and Social Policy

Evolving Bioethics and International Human Rights

Dignity, Rights, Health Care, and Human Flourishing

Human Rights: The Ethics of Globalization

Human Rights and the Right to Health Care

Religion, International Human Rights and Women's Health: Synthesizing Principles and Politics

The Centrality And Limits Of Autonomy

The Limitations and Accomplishments of Autonomy as a Basic Principle in Bioethics and Biolaw

Person and Human Being in Bioethics and Biolaw

Welfare Rights and Health Care

Autonomy and the rights of minors

Domestic Violence

Balancing Autonomy and Traditional Values in Treating Terminally Ill Patients: Towards Locating the Right Questions for Japan

Pluralism, Race And Health

Culture, Community or Rights

Bioethics Between Nature and Culture

Medical Practice as the Primary Context for Medical Ethics

Euthanasia and Muticulturalism

Future Legal Ordering And Social Planning

International Law and Genetic Couselling

International Perspective on Organ Donation

Justice in the distribution of transplant organs

Human Cloning and Human Dignity

Accessing Health Care Resources: Economic, Medical, Ethical and Socio-Legal Challenges

Mental Health Rights: The Relation between Constitution and Bioethics

Individual Integrity, Research Ethics And Human Rights

The 'Vulnerability' Quagmire in International Research

Human Rights, Health Care and Biomedical Innovation: Confronting the Research Imperative

The Rights to Die and the Duty to Save: a Reflection on Ethical Presuppositions in Suicide Research

The Right to Bodily Security Vis-Ç-Vis the Needs of Others

Index

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