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Area of Science:

  • Global Health
  • Bioethics
  • Health Equity

Background:

  • Significant global disparities exist in health outcomes, such as life expectancy and child mortality.
  • Average health statistics mask crucial within-country inequalities.
  • Bioethics must expand its scope to address these global health injustices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To report on and reflect on attempts to teach bioethics focusing on global health and justice.
  • To explore key ethical issues in global health, including inequality and duties to assist/not harm.
  • To discuss the shift in bioethics from sensational cases to everyday matters and social determinants of health.

Main Methods:

  • Reflective practice on six years of teaching bioethics with a global health focus.
  • Discussion of core ethical concepts: inequality, duty to assist, duty not to harm, cosmopolitan vs. political justice.
  • Analysis of how global health teaching influences bioethics' emphasis.

Main Results:

  • Teaching bioethics globally necessitates addressing inequalities and defining duties to assist and not harm.
  • A global health perspective encourages a shift from autonomy-focused bioethics to considerations of social determinants of health.
  • The approach moves bioethics from rare, dramatic cases to more common, everyday health issues.

Conclusions:

  • Bioethics education can be a powerful tool for promoting global health equity.
  • Integrating global health into bioethics requires careful consideration of justice and responsibilities.
  • Further reflection is needed on the scope of bioethics and the politicization of the field.