This commentary introduces critical public health ethics as an innovative lens for considering Canada's role in global health. Arising from the relatively young field of public health ethics, this analytic perspective sheds light on questions regarding public health policy, research and practice that often remain shaded from view because of traditional ways of thinking about public health. The ...

Today software engineering is a global activity. Frequently groups of people from all over the world collaborate on the development of one system or work is outsourced. Western companies send development work to Asia and increasingly to Eastern Europe. The differences between cultures and the problems these differences create, are plentiful. Many professional organizations guide their members t...

© 2006 Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA, and 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK. Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK ASR usiness and Society Review 0045-3609 © 2006 Ce ter f r Busin ss Ethics at Bentley College 111 3 rigi al Article U INESS and SOCIETY REVIEW PHILIPP PATTBERG The Influence of Global Bu...

Good medical ethics needs to look more to the resources of public health ethics and use more societal, population or community values and perspectives, rather than defaulting to the individualistic values that currently dominate discussion. In this paper I argue that we can use the recent response to Ebola as an example of a major failure of the global community in three ways. First, the focus ...

Life in today's global village has two ontological and epistemological aspects. One problem of the globalized world related to these two aspects, which will be discussed in this article first is the fact that the civilization of the globalized world has, in some ways, been disconnected from its culture, since civilization moves towards collectivism whereas culture moves towards ind...

Equity and healthy ageing Sridhar Venkatapuram, Hans-Jörg Ehni & Abha Saxena a Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, England. b Institute for Ethics and the History of Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. c Global Health Ethics Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Corresponding to Sridhar Venkatapuram (em...