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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Global bioethics"”.
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Interpreting the Culture of Ubuntu: The Contribution of a Representative Indigenous African Ethics to Global Bioethics
… and the world that contribute to the meaning of Global Bioethics. </p><p>Ubuntu can be described as involving several distinct yet related components that can be explored in relation to major strands of discourse in contemporary Bioethics. The first component of Ubuntu deals with the tension …
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The Core Relation Between Hospitality (Philoxenia), Dignity and Vulnerability in Orthodox Christian Bioethics: A Contribution to Global Bioethics
… world, reaching consensus in matters of bioethics has proved to be difficult, especially with the political polarization that nurtures inimical differences. This dissertation argues that a middle ground can be identified between the plurality of value systems in contemporary bioethics …
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A Bioethics Tool for the Implementation of Global Principles by the Pharmaceutical Industry
… responsibility. Currently, no specifically global bioethics tool exists to implement ethics principles into the business practices of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, which constitutes a glaring gap in the implementation of ethics principles. This dissertation thus aims to do the …
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EQUITABLE ACCESS TO HUMAN BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: Benefit Sharing Without Undue Inducement.
… the thesis resolves a highly pressing topic in global bioethics and international law. Originally, it combines bioethical argument with jurisprudence, in particular reference to the law of equity and the legal concepts of duress (coercion), unconscionable dealing, and undue influence.
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The Contribution of African Traditional Medicine For a Model of Relational Autonomy in Informed Consent
… examines the ethics of care movement in Western bioethics which also advocates a relational approach to informed consent. This movement presents a concept of persons as relational beings who are socially embedded, thereby interpreting patient autonomy in their relationships with others. This …
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Solidarity with the Vulnerable: Global Healthcare Ethics in Spiritan Perspective
<p>This dissertation focuses on global healthcare ethics from a Spiritan perspective. As the Spiritan Congregation developed over centuries, its core charism has been implemented in a variety of ministries articulated in terms of solidarity with the vulnerable (SWV). There has been very little …
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A New Ethical Model for The Analysis of Care for Refugee Women Who Experience Female Genital Cutting
… from an estimated 228,000 to 513,000.</p> <p>Globally, FGC has raised justifiable concerns, particularly when the procedure is performed without consent. As female refugees migrate from FGC/m communities to a non-FGC/m reality, women not only bring their customs, beliefs, and values – they …
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Adopting the UNESCO Ethics Model to Critique Disease Mongering
<p>The question this dissertation seeks to address is if the process of disease mongering can be ethically assessed. Chapter one provides a broad scope of the ethical challenge of disease mongering, UNESCO model framework, ADHD and PMDD. Chapter two examines disease mongering and its driving forces …
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The Ethical Balance Between Individual and Population Health Interests To Effectively Manage Pandemics and Epidemics
… The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights provides a hermeneutical context for applying MIEM in so far as it places MIEM within the context of promoting rights (individual and human) by considering the general ethical tension between individual and universal …
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Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework
… ethics and the emerging discourse on disaster bioethics as public health disasters. This concept reflects public health issues with calamitous or devastating social consequences such as infectious disease outbreaks, the attendant public health impacts of natural or man-made disasters, and …