The coming decades will present an immense challenge for the planet: sustainably feeding nearly ten billion people that are expected to be alive by 2050. This is no small task, and one intersects with climate change, geopolitics, increased globalization of agricultural markets, emergence new technologies. world faces a demand, propelled expanding population global shift in dietary patterns towa...

The article shows the importance of teaching ethics for development humanitarian education, as well reveals problematic issues contemporary ethical knowledge. authors consider issue influence digital technologies on remote communication people, analyzing in this regard network communications. It is shown that they correspond to morality, which people supposed be unlimited by formal institutions...

There is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. And while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. We outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics...

Recently, conflicts and challenges have emerged regarding environmental justice and research ethics for some indigenous communities. Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) responded to community requests for breast milk biomonitoring and conceived the Breast Milk Pilot Study (BMPS). Despite having community support and federal and private funding, the BMPS remains incomplete due to repeated d...

League tables are just one example of the growing importance of "institutional success" in the health service. What are the implications of attaching importance to institutional success, and what impact might this have on professional ethics? This paper considers these issues and argues that public policy processes which centre on institutional performance, and which co-opt professional loyalti...

Annual conference ESPMH, 2008 XXIInd International Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (together with the Centre for Ethics, University of Tartu). Theme: ‘‘European bioethics in a global context’’. Date: August 20–23, 2008. Place: Tartu, Estonia. Abstracts should be submitted before January 1, 2008. For more information: Bert Gordijn, PhD, Secretary of t...

The NetÕs reach is global, but Net access is far from global; and as the IT caravan rolls on, stragglers slip further behind. However, the Net is a cheap power just made for isolated people, and thus it offers access to an unprecedented equality of opportunity. Women have equal access. But the already poor do not. Equity here raises questions of human rights, ethics, the professional standing o...

The idea of resource scarcity permeates health ethics and health policy analysis in various contexts. However, health ethics inquiry seldom asks-as it should-why some settings are 'resource-scarce' and others not. In this article I describe interrogating scarcity as a strategy for inquiry into questions of resource allocation within a single political jurisdiction and, in particular, as an appr...