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The ELSI Genetics Regulatory Resource Kit: A Tool for Policymakers in Developing Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Zara Merali ,
Peter A. Singer ,
Victor Boulyjenkov  and
Abdallah S. Daar
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The international context of the last fifty years of modern bioethics have been significant in establishing health-care ethics or bioethics as a common parlance - an ideology of our times, achieving near universal acceptance, with little dissent. Most international health organizations have developed important declarations that have become the credo of their daily practice and long-term commitments. However, in the last decade in particular, bioethicists and other health-care practitioners and scholars have worried about the persistence of health-care inequities and the inadequate realization of bioethics, particularly in low-to-middle income countries. Global bioethics, now well into the new millennium, has entered a regulatory crisis: it needs to confront not just global bioethical commitments around major scientific revolutions such as genomics, but further, a regulatory crisis about the persisting national public law silences and health inequities, especially in low-to-middle income countries.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , Winter 2004 , pp. 692 - 700
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2004

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