Vulnerability

Taylor & Francis

VulnerabilityChallenging Bioethics\nAuthor(s): Henk ten Have\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138652668, 978-1138652668\nSynopsis\nAlongside globalization, the sense of vulnerability among people and populations has increased. We feel vulnerable to disease as new infections spread rapidly across the globe, while disasters and climate change make health increasingly precarious. Moreover, clinical trials of new drugs often exploit vulnerable populations in developing countries that otherwise have no access to healthcare and new genetic technologies make people with disabilities vulnerable to discrimination. Therefore the concept of vulnerability has contributed new ideas to the debates about the ethical dimensions of medicine and healthcare.\n\nThis book explains and elaborates the new concept of vulnerability in todays bioethics. Firstly, Henk ten Have argues that vulnerability cannot be fully understood within th.