Biomedical technology and human rights
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Bibliographic Information
Biomedical technology and human rights
Dartmouth , UNESCO : ISSC , WFMH, c1993
- : Dartmouth
- : UNESCO
Available at 23 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-300) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text aims to present a humane approach to the issues of health rights, recognizing they are embedded in an interpersonal web of privileges and obligations understandable in particular socio-economic and cultural contexts. It reflects the author's experience, and is aimed at policy makers as well as those concerned with human rights in general, scientists, practitioners, students of medicine, public health and other health professions, especially those whose interests cross national and cultural boundaries.
Table of Contents
- Health in the context of international human rights
- human rights in the culture of science and technology
- human rights aspects of reproductive technology
- transplantation of adult and foetal organs and tissues
- the new genetics - manipulation, screening, prediction
- biomedical science and the rights of persons defined as mentally ill
- sustaining the life of dying or comatose patients
- biomedical technology - towards health for all?. Appendices: UNESCO/ISSC statement of 1985
- United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 1948
- WFMH Declaration of Human Rights and Mental health, October 1989.
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