Catherine Myser (ed.). Bioethics Around the Globe.

Catherine Myser (ed.). Bioethics Around the Globe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-538609-7, 294pp Discussed mainly since the 1970s in the western world, bioethics has been exported to other countries around the world, often within a paradigm of building 'ethics capacity'. This has occurred so rapidly that there has been no adequate opportunity for self-study, self-critique and self-correction. Catherine Myser has invited colleagues to analyse the cultural meanings and social functions of bioethics around the globe, to explore whether bioethics 'genuinely serves the society in which it is practiced, rather than imposing unexamined values'. Possible hidden agendas—professional, religious, socio-cultural—need to be addressed. In this book, studies from high-, low- and middle-income countries …