Vulnerability : challenging bioethics

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Vulnerability : challenging bioethics

Henk ten Have

Routledge, 2016

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  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-244) and index

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Alongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased. We feel vulnerable to disease as new infections spread rapidly across the globe, while disasters and climate change make health increasingly precarious. Moreover, clinical trials of new drugs often exploit vulnerable populations in developing countries that otherwise have no access to healthcare and new genetic technologies make people with disabilities vulnerable to discrimination. Therefore the concept of 'vulnerability' has contributed new ideas to the debates about the ethical dimensions of medicine and healthcare. This book explains and elaborates the new concept of vulnerability in today's bioethics. Firstly, Henk ten Have argues that vulnerability cannot be fully understood within the framework of individual autonomy that dominates mainstream bioethics today: it is often not the individual person who is vulnerable, rather that his or her vulnerability is created through the social and economic conditions in which he or she lives. Contending that the language of vulnerability offers perspectives beyond the traditional autonomy model, this book offers a new approach which will enable bioethics to evolve into a global enterprise. This groundbreaking book critically analyses the concept of vulnerability as a global phenomenon. It will appeal to scholars and students of ethics, bioethics, globalization, healthcare, medical science, medical research, culture, law, and politics.

目次

1. The Idea of Vulnerability 2. Growing Interest in Vulnerability 3. Vulnerability in the Context of Health Care and Bioethics 4. The Bioethical Discourse of Vulnerability 5. We Are All Vulnerable - Philosophical Perspectives on Vulnerability 6. Some of Us Are More Vulnerable - Political Perspectives on Vulnerability 7. Vulnerability Is Everywhere - Globalization and Vulnerability 8. Theoretical Implications of Vulnerability 9. Practical Applications of Vulnerability

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