Bioethics around the globe:

This volume takes a critical, empirical look at bioethics around the globe, examining how it is being transformed - at both local and global levels - in the process of cross-cultural exporting and importing. The book offers the first comparative anthropology and sociology of globalising bioethics in...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford Oxford University Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung:This volume takes a critical, empirical look at bioethics around the globe, examining how it is being transformed - at both local and global levels - in the process of cross-cultural exporting and importing. The book offers the first comparative anthropology and sociology of globalising bioethics in the field, exploring the global dissemination, local adaptations, cultural meanings and social functions of bioethics theories, practices and institutions and comparing developed and developing countries
Beschreibung:xxxiv, 294 p.
ISBN:9780190267476
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195386097.001.0001