Negotiating Bioethics Quotes

“Benefit-sharing and equal access to advances in biomedical science are now urgent and universal issues’ [italics added].”
― Adèle Langlois, Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme

“In a follow-up to their BMJ paper, Benatar and Singer (2010: 195) acknowledged the improvements, but maintained that ‘the global medical research agenda remains skewed away from the needs of poor people’.”
― Adèle Langlois, Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme

“Like many commentators, Benatar and Singer (2000: 824) referred to the ‘10/90 gap’: in 1990, approximately 90 per cent of annual health research funding was concentrated on only 10 per cent of the global disease burden.”
― Adèle Langlois, Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme

“Medical research is largely market driven, to the detriment of those in poor parts of the world where infectious diseases are rife. Debates in research ethics thus spill over from micro level regulatory concerns to the broader issue of how inequalities of”
― Adèle Langlois, Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme

“stipulates that contextualization should only go so far: ‘respect for democracy should take precedence over the preservation of cultural traditions that undermine democracy and human rights’.”
― Adèle Langlois, Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme

“In short, bioethics investigates ethical issues arising in the life sciences (medicine, health care, genetics, biology, research, etc) by applying the principles and methods of moral philosophy to these problems.”
― Adèle Langlois, Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO’s Bioethics Programme