グローバル化する世界における新たな生命倫理の問題群と向き合う「グローバル生命倫理」の初の百科事典であり、斯界の第一人者を編者として、世界各国から各分野の第一級の専門家たちを結集し、最新かつ包括的な議論の構図を示す。New issues covered include sponsorship of research and education, scientific misconduct and research integrity, exploitation of research participants in resource-poor settings, brain drain and migration of healthcare workers, organ trafficking and transplant tourism, indigenous medicine, biodiversity, commodification of human tissue, benefit sharing, bio industry and food, malnutrition and hunger, human rights and climate change.