ABSTRACT

"Everyday Bioethics" suggests a new perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society. It is based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the new development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns all people around the world. Indeed, moral reflection on birth, human bodies, jobs, the gender and class relations, diseases and the treatment of the sick, death, the interdependence of human beings and other living creatures, has a long history, as long as that of mankind itself. The ideas and values that daily permeate the minds and behaviors of all human beings in these fields deserve the greatest attention, and are increasingly influenced by the progress of science and technology.

chapter Chapter 1|29 pages

Procreation and Birth

chapter Chapter 2|24 pages

Population, Ethics, and Equity

chapter Chapter 3|34 pages

Work And Health: Foundations And Ethical Conflicts

chapter Chapter 4|21 pages

The Human Body: From Slavery to the Biomarket

chapter Chapter 5|34 pages

Global Health

chapter |5 pages

Afterword