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Biotech and Justice: Catching up with the Real World Order
Author(s) -
CAHILL LISA SOWLE
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528634
Subject(s) - economic justice , order (exchange) , law and economics , law , political science , sociology , business , finance
Social policy questions in the U.S. are often framed in terms of individual rights, valorizing individual freedom and self‐determination. But this focus obscures the social and economic bases of health and disease. U.S. bioethics, as its counterparts in Africa and Asia have done, needs to restructure its philosophical framework and expand its moral criteria to consider how to define a global ethics.