Global bioethics and human rights: contemporary perspectives (Second edition.)

The ethical issues we face in health care, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries-they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of a diverse interdisciplinary and international team of bioethics experts into a comprehensive, innovative, and accessible resource.

Following a consideration of theoretical frameworks that inform a global bioethics, units on human rights, life and death, and public health form an in-depth look at contemporary issues in the field. Each unit includes cutting edge analyses and thought-provoking case studies, as well as discussion prompts. Topics range from torture and lethal injection to euthanasia, abortion, medical tourism, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, vaccination programs, mental health, the ethics of surrogacy, and more.

The second edition includes new essays on
bioethics and environmental ethics
medical tourism
torture and solitary confinement
institutional review boards
pediatric genomics
the abortion debate
the ethics of surrogacy
issues in global health ethics
revirgination surgery
global mental health
feminist perspectives on global aging
ethical considerations for vaccination programs