ABSTRACT
This chapter touches on the high-tech issues that are so important in contemporary bioethics; it focuses on global issues in order to explore those concerns most relevant to global ethics. It covers such topics as abortion, euthanasia and the sale of body parts such as kidneys, as well as access to essential drugs and research in developing countries. The chapter revisits the debate, focusing on the ethics of kidney sale in order to show the structure of bioethical arguments. In developing new communal and group models, bioethics has begun to address the issue in policy and practice as well as in theory, and these "new models" could be useful in other areas of the global-ethics debate as possible templates. The debate about the inadequacy of informed consent also speaks to one of the key theoretical debates in contemporary ethics and particularly global ethics, namely the debate about how to balance the rights and interests of individuals and groups.
