Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, AND VULNERABILITY -- NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ETHICS / Solomon R. Benatar -- SOME CURRENT ISSUES IN THE ETHICS OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND THEIR BACKGROUND IN THE PROTECTION OF THE DIGNITY AND AUTONOMY OF THE VULNERABLE / Matti Häyry -- BIOETHICS AND BIOMEDICINE: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES’ PERSPECTIVE / Florencia Luna -- BRAZILIAN RESEARCH ETHICS: A NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE AIMING TO BUILD A NEW CULTURE OF RESPECT / Leo Pessini and Leonard M. Martin -- WHO SETS THE AGENDA FOR HEALTH RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? A CALL FOR MORE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT / Angela Amondi Wasunna -- ETHICAL ASPECTS IN INTRODUCING GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PURPOSES / Darryl R. J. Macer -- THE ETHICAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH INTO RARE GENETIC DISORDERS / Michael Parker , Richard Ashcroft , Andrew Wilkie and Alastair Kent -- ONGOING AND EMERGING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING OF LIFE: UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVES / Rosemarie Tong -- HUMAN STEM CELL RESEARCH AS A PROMISING HOPE FOR HUMANKIND: A CHRISTIAN ETHICAL CONTRIBUTION / Bart Hansen and Paul Schotsmans -- INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN BIOETHICS AND ETHICS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY / Boris G. Yudin -- INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND THE ETHICS OF RESEARCH: THE MORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNICABILITY / Leslie P. Francis , Margaret P. Battin , Jeffrey R. Botkin , Jay A. Jacobson and Charles B. Smith -- IS THERE A DUTY TO SERVE AS RESEARCH SUBJECTS? / Leonardo D. de Castro -- VULNERABILITY IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS / Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli -- THE NEW VULNERABILITIES RAISED BY BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH / Maria do Céu Patrão Neves -- HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD: ALTERNATIVES TO BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH / Frank J. Leavitt -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.

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This book deals with the international assessment and regulation of biomedical research. In its chapters, some of the leading figures in today’s bioethics address questions centred on global development, scientific advances, and vulnerability. The series Values In Bioethics makes available original philosophical books in all areas of bioethics, including medical and nursing ethics, health care ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, and global bioethics.