Global Health Challenges: The Need for an Expanded Discourse on Bioethics

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Abstract

Benatar and colleagues argue that the world has changed profoundly since the birth of modern bioethics in the 1960s, and that bioethics needs to address today's global health problems.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med

Journal ID (publisher-id): pmed

Title: PLoS Medicine

Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )

ISSN (Print): 1549-1277

ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676

Publication date (Print): July 2005

Publication date (Electronic): 26 July 2005

Volume: 2

Issue: 7

Electronic Location Identifier: e143

Author notes

Solomon R. Benatar is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Centre, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa) and Visiting Professor in Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada). Abdallah S. Daar is Professor of Public Health Sciences and Surgery and Director of Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto. Peter A. Singer is Professor of Medicine at University Health Network and University of Toronto, and Sun Life Financial Chair and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.

Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sbenatar@ 123456uctgsh1.uct.ac.za

Article

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020143

PMC ID: 1181869

PubMed ID: 16033302

SO-VID: bd015be6-016f-4ffb-96d2-a3b76a12faba

Copyright © Copyright: © 2005 Benatar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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