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Vulnerability

A Key Principle for Global Bioethics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

THIAGO CUNHA  and
VOLNEI GARRAFA
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Abstract:

Collating the concepts of vulnerability through five regional perspectives on bioethics from the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this article proposes a means of integration between the different approaches in order to seek a theoretical and normative basis for the field of global bioethics. It argues that only through opening continuous, critical, and self-critical dialogue within the international bioethical community will it be possible to achieve a sufficiently global understanding of vulnerability that is capable of identifying the means needed for addressing the conditions that leave certain groups and individuals more susceptible to “wounding” than others.

Keywords

vulnerabilitybioethicsglobal bioethics
Type
Special Section: Responsibility, Vulnerability, Dignity, and Humanity
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 197 - 208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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