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Bioethics and Turkey: Crossroads and challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Semih Semin  and
Sahbal Aras
Semih Semin
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Ethics, Medical Faculty, Dokuz Eylul University, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkey 35340 semih.semin@deu.edu.tr
Sahbal Aras
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylul University, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkey 35340 sahbal.aras@deu.edu.tr
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Abstract

Despite extraordinary improvements in medicine, health care worldwide continues to exhibit indefensible contradictions and extreme inequalities. “Health-for-all” campaigns, and development programs targeting welfare and social security have addressed these problems with limited success, but bioethicists, who by this point in the globalization era might have been expected to be addressing these problems urgently and persistently, have had little to say. We ask if bioethics, stalled at a crossroads, is prepared to alter course. We review the bioethics experience in Turkey as a case study, considering especially globalization and Turkey's application to join the European Union.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 2 - 9
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