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Eva Feder Kittay's characterization of "rights/justice-based ethics/bioethics on the one hand and relationships/care-based ethics/bioethics on the other hand", noted in Tong's essay, could be both inward or outward in application. Taken in aggregate, the articles which were solicited for our thematic issue, which attempts to re-define global bioethics and "deepen understandings of what "global bioethics" is and does" simply does just that. Yet, as Gustavo Ortiz Millán's commentary on Macklin's article suggests, "a more globalized world presents bioethics with new challenges; cases that call for a global response and also a global bioethics.". [Extracted from the article]

Bioethics, as we are too infrequently reminded, was originally an ethical system concerned with the 'problems of interference with other living beings ... and generally everything related to the balance of the ecosystem' according to the 1978 Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Reich [29]). Following from the United Kingdom Climate Change Act of 2008 (UK Public General Acts [32]), the document I Saving Carbon, Improving Health: NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy for England i encouraged carbon-neutral transportation - like walking and biking - eliminating animal-based foods from menus, and reducing water waste in health care facilities (National Health Services Sustainable Development Unit [21]). Similarly, the NHS I Climate Change Strategy for Wales i released in 2010 (National Health Services [19]), outlined policies for sustainable health care based on the groundbreaking data from the I Carbon Footprint of NHS Wales 2005-2009 i study (Lungley [14]). [Extracted from the article]

The article examines the concept of facial feminization surgery (FFS) as a social reaction to gender ambiguity. It highlights the oppressive stakeholders such as queer and feminist in the scientific community including pharmaceutical and medical companies, cisgender men and heterosexuals. Also emphasized is the significant of decision making in medical, policies and treatments for LGBT people such as gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual.

Developmental disabilities in children can be challenging to the family who desires a spiritual home for their family. Parents may hesitate to bring a special needs child to a church service, uncertain of the outcome. While public schools have amazing support for the differently abled, the Church very rarely has assistance in place for the families of handicapped individuals, let alone theology for the parents of mentally disabled children. This paper will examine possible ways for a local church leader or volunteer to educate children with mental disabilities, drawing on a variety of texts for support. The paper will conclude by offering resources for the teachers of special needs children in church education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Civil rights leaders James Cone and Martin Luther King Jr. stand out for their articulation on the injury that has been done to their "race" by White people, in the form of discrimination and poverty. These two issues of racial and economic justice were chief among the concerns for the equality of all humans. This article will trace the struggle for human rights through the rise of Black theology. The response of the White racists to this uprising was one of meager offerings, if not outright refusal: gradual integration and tokenism. The concept of struggle against these evil forces rises to prominence, as the civil rights movement seeks to integrate sympathetic Whites into their plight. This leads to a union of races, especially as those in the lower class-both Black and White-mobilized their numbers to protest against the prevalent unemployment and the source of the economic injustice-namely, discrimination. Finally, the solutions of both Cone and King will be put forth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]