Bioethics
Volume 33, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 890-895

On beginning with justice: Bioethics, advocacy and the rights of asylum seekers (Article)

Zion D.*
  • a Human Research Ethics Committee, Victoria UniversityVIC, Australia

Abstract

The situation around the seeking of refuge, both in Australia and abroad, has become a core human rights issue of our time, engendering protest and activism from the public, researchers, healthcare professionals and academics. The question remains: do bioethicists have duties to advocate on behalf of such populations, and if so, why? I argue that if our work is founded upon the principle of justice, then we do have such duties, and that our research, in itself, can become a form of advocacy. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Author Keywords

Advocacy Asylum seekers justice

Index Keywords

justice Article asylum seeker human bioethics
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072401372&doi=10.1111%2fbioe.12660&partnerID=40&md5=48b7be252ba98fc21d2da582fe050e44
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12660
ISSN: 02699702
Original Language: English