Introduction

Felix Thiele, Richard Ashcroft

1-3

Cultural rationality and moral principles

Oswald Schwemmer

5-16

Morality and culture

are ethics culture-dependent?

Godfrey B. Tangwa

17-21

Neither golden nugget nor Frankenstein

the need to re-embed food biotechnologies in sociocultural contexts

Michiel Korthals

23-31

Beyond GM foods

genomics, biotechnology and global health equity

Abdallah S. Daar, Tara Acharya, Isaac Filate, Halla Thorsteinsdottir, Peter Singer

33-44

Patents on biomaterial

a new colonialism or a means for technology transfer and benefit-sharing?

Joseph Straus

45-72

From the corporeal to the informational

exploring the scope of benefit sharing agreements and their applicability to sequence databases

Bronwyn Parry

73-91

Access to essential drugs, human rights and global justice

Carmel Shalev

93-109

Access to essential drugs

the ethical challenge of allocating obligations

Georg Marckmann

111-119

Why is it morally wrong to clone a human being?

how to evaluate arguments of biopolitics, biomorality, and bioethics

Edgar Morscher

121-128

Bioethics and (public) policy advice

Udo Schüklenk, Jason P. Lott

129-138