Bioethics in Perspective: Corporate Power, Public Health and Political Economy

by Scott Mann

• ISBN13: 9780521756563
• ISBN10: 0521756561
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511796319
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In Bioethics in Perspective Scott Mann demonstrates the importance of issues of corporate power, global inequality and sustainability in shaping health outcomes around the world. The text develops a comprehensive ethical and practical critique of the neoliberal economic ideas which have guided policy in the English-speaking world. It explores the consequences of such policies for health and healthcare around the world, in terms of increasing health inequalities, serious food and water shortages, inadequate health care provision and the marketing of dangerous and unnecessary drugs. With clear proposals for political and economic reform to effectively address these problems, Bioethics in Perspective provides an important counterbalance to much conventional commentary on bioethics. It takes readers with little or no prior knowledge of ethics, economics or medicine quickly and easily into advanced debates and discussions about the causes and consequences of health and illness around the world.

Author Biography

Scott Mann is Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Western Sydney.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Ethics and ideology	p. 10
Freely competitive markets	p. 36
Problems of competition	p. 60
Health inequalities	p. 96
Food and water	p. 117
GM foods and life patents	p. 146
Energy and the greenhouse effect	p. 170
Health care provision	p. 198
Drugs, drug testing and drug companies	p. 221
What is to be done?	p. 256
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 274
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