Global bioethics and the environment

Authors

  • Fernando Lolas Stepke Universidad de Chile

Abstract

On referring briefly to changes in human relationships over the last fifty years, which have been termed globalization, the essay mentions its positive and negative aspects and contends that economic and industrial development has caused deep changes in the environment. It emphasizes that globalization has ethical implications among other reasons because it affects individuals. The paper then turns to the term bioethics and its overall bases, which respond to regulatory, supervisory, deliberative and interaction imperatives. Finally, it is noted that guiding principles of the dominant form of bioethics are not wholly applicable to its formulation as global bioethics.

Keywords:

civilization, globalization, environment, ethics, bioethics

Author Biography

Fernando Lolas Stepke, Universidad de Chile

Profesor Titular y Director, Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética y Programa de Ética Global, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile