Science in the Service of Human Rights by Richard Pierre Claude - 9780812221923

University of Pennsylvania Press

Science in the Service of Human RightsAuthor(s): Richard Pierre Claude\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812221923, 978-0812221923\nSynopsis\nIssues that mix science and politics present some of today's most daunting ethical questions. Did China violate the human rights of prisoners in 2001 by harvesting their kidneys and other organs without their formal consent? Do the victims of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa have the right to effective pharmaceutical treatments that are beyond their financial reach? Have incautious steps toward human cloning trodden dangerously close to the revival of eugenics? Science in the Service of Human Rights presents a new framework for debate on such controversial questions surrounding scientific freedom and responsibility by illuminating the many critical points of intersection between human rights and science.\n\n In the wake of the horrors of the Nazi eng.