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Chapter 25 - Global Health and Ethical Transculturalism

A Methodology Connecting the East and the West, the Local and the Universal*

from Section 5 - The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Jing-Bao Nie  and
Ruth P. Fitzgerald
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

Contemporary bioethical issues are inherently cross-cultural and global in their nature. This is not surprising because bioethical matters touch everyone in many and different ways. Moral quandaries in healthcare, life sciences, and biotechnology arise ubiquitously across natural and human boundaries, the boundaries between and within nation-states, ethnicities, cultures, communities, and social groups. In addition, the simultaneously large-scale and intimate interactions between and within different cultures and civilizations and the rapid pace at which they change are phenomena that distinguish our times from previous eras. Bioethics – as a particular domain of public discourse and an academic discipline – has thus been rapidly evolving not only in the United States and other Western countries but also on a global scale over the past 50 years.

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Global Health
Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 326 - 338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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