Global Bioethics, Global Dialogue: Introduction

Abstract

This volume explores one of the central debates in the field of bioethics in the new century. It analyses the important issue of the possibility of global bioethics from multiple levels and perspectives, taking into account the context of breathtaking technological and social changes, and the challenge of moral pluralism, within which complex bioethical issues demand solutions. The challenge requires us to explore some fundamental questions in moral philosophy both at the normative and the meta-ethical level. It also leads us to debate some concrete issues in health care and bioethics which require urgent ethical decision-making and “pragmatic” solutions from a cross-cultural perspective.