This new and timely edition of an emerging classical volume on bioethics and human rights meets most expectations. However, this new iteration does not replace, but rather complements, previous editions. While the book still includes well-crafted, fundamental pieces that both support and challenge the notion of global bioethics, epitomized by the unperishable trio of Gert, Beauchamp, and Holm, this edition includes several new articles that address previously missing questions and approach more voguish issues. Culture and truth-telling in medicine and the rights of persons with disabilities count among the former, while a number of COVID-related articles belong to the latter. As in previous editions, the book has further readings and materials, specific questions for discussion, essays, and representative cases for didactic exercises. For those who are interested in the timeless problems of biomedicine and human rights, this volume delivers, yet this reviewer recommends referencing previous editions as well. Readers who are seeking more recent problems in health care and human rights will welcome it, although many journals have already published similar materials. This edition will have a shorter shelf life than its predecessors, which is the fate of all timely publications. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, practitioners.

Choice Reviews

This important collection takes a wide range of key ethical issues in global health and examines them in the context of human rights theory and practice. It could not be more useful or more timely.

Richard Ashcroft, professor of bioethics, City Law School, City, University of London

Combine authors from a Who’s Who list in ethics with global issues that interest us all and you achieve this book. Well done!

Doris Schroeder, director, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire