Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of Unesco's Bioethics Programme

ISBN-13: 9780415533461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 198 str.

Ad Le Langlois

Opis

'Negotiating Bioethics' examines UNESCO's Bioethics Programme from an international relations perspective, paying particular attention to the role played by developing countries in its standard setting work in genetics, bioethics and human cloning. The book is based on fieldwork carried out by Langlois in Kenya, South Africa, France and the UK, among policy-makers, geneticists, ethicists, civil society representatives and industry professionals.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Bioethics: Human Genetic and Biomedical Research Ethics at UNESCO and Beyond  3. Global Governance: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Bioethics at UNESCO  4. Deliberating Bioethics: UNESCO’s Standard Setting Activities  5. Implementing Bioethics: UNESCO’s Efforts to Realise and Enforce the Declarations  6. Contextualising Bioethics: The Declarations in Kenya and South Africa  7. Contextualising Bioethics: Mapping Progress in Kenya and South Africa  8. Conclusion.  Appendix I: Interviews.  Notes.  References

O autorze

Adèle Langlois is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lincoln. She has conducted fieldwork in India, Kenya and South Africa. Her research interests include the regulation of human genetic and biomedical research, polio eradication, environmental ethics and normative theories of global governance.