Bioethics and Turkey Crossroads and challenges

Despite extraordinary improvements in medicine, health care worldwide continues to exhibit indefensible contradictions and extreme inequalities. “Health-for-all” campaigns, and development programs targeting welfare and social security have addressed these problems with limited success, but bioethic...

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Published inPolitics and the life sciences Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 2 - 9
Main Authors Semin, Semih, Aras, Sahbal
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, US Cambridge University Press 01.03.2007
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
Subjects
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Biological sciences
Case studies
Deontological ethics
EU membership
Globalization
Health care access
Health Services Administration - ethics
Healthcare Disparities - ethics
Healthcare Disparities - organization & administration
Human Rights
Humans
Income inequality
Medical ethics
Medical practice
Morals
Physicians
Political ethics
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Scientific Research
Social ethics
Socioeconomics
Turkey
Turkey
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Summary:Despite extraordinary improvements in medicine, health care worldwide continues to exhibit indefensible contradictions and extreme inequalities. “Health-for-all” campaigns, and development programs targeting welfare and social security have addressed these problems with limited success, but bioethicists, who by this point in the globalization era might have been expected to be addressing these problems urgently and persistently, have had little to say. We ask if bioethics, stalled at a crossroads, is prepared to alter course. We review the bioethics experience in Turkey as a case study, considering especially globalization and Turkey's application to join the European Union.
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ISSN:0730-9384
1471-5457
DOI:10.2990/26_1_2