Presidential address: global bioethics - dream or nightmare?

The state of global bioethics can be thought of as a dream or nightmare according to Alastair V. Campbell, president, International Association of Bioethics, speaking at the first joint meeting, in Tokyo, of the organization with the Asian Bioethics Association. To have a reasonable, free, and open and position, global bioethics must avoid those systems which claim to be overarching and to clean up essential diversity in ethical intuitions. Cultures dismissed as primitive have in them intuitions that are of value.