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    Global bioethics: Utopia or reality?Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2006 - Developing World Bioethics 8 (2):70-81.
    This article discusses what 'global bioethics' means today and what features make bioethical research 'global'. The article provides a historical view of the development of the field of 'bioethics', from medical ethics to the wider study of bioethics in a global context. It critically examines the particular problems that 'global bioethics' research faces across cultural and political borders and suggests some solutions on how to move towards a more balanced and culturally less biased dialogue in the issues of bioethics. The (...)
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    Ethics: universal or global? The trends in studies of ethics in the context of globalization.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2015 - Journal of Global Ethics 11 (1):80-89.
    The article discusses how theory and practice in global ethics affect each other. First, the author explores how the study of ethics has changed in the era of globalization and ponders what the role of the field of study of global ethics is in this context. Second, she wants to show how the logical fallacies in widening study field of ethics produce false polarizations between facts and value judgements in social ethics made in various cultural contexts. She further elaborates how (...)
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    Towards an alternative approach to personhood in the end of life questions.Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten - 2000 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 21 (6):515-536.
    Within the Western bioethical framework, we make adistinction between two dominant interpretations of the meaning of moral personhood: thenaturalist and the humanist one. While both interpretations of moral personhood claim topromote individual autonomy and rights, they end up with very different normativeviews on the practical and legal measures needed to realize these values in every daylife. Particularly when we talk about the end of life issues it appears that in general thearguments for euthanasia are drawn from the naturalist interpretation of (...)
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    Empowering the Invisible: Women, Local Culture and Global Human Rights Protection.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2010 - Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 2 (1):37-57.
    This paper examines the problems that various contemporary human rights discourses face with relativism, with special reference to the global protection of women’s rights. These problems are set within the theoretical debate between the Western liberal individualism on the one hand, and African, Asian and Islamic collectivist communitarianism on the other. Instead of trying to prove the superiority of one theoretical approach over the other, the purpose here is to point out some of the most common logical fallacies and cultural (...)
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    Pluralism in multicultural liberal democracy and the justification of female circumcision.Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten - 1999 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 16 (1):69–83.
    This article discusses the problems that a liberal, multicultural democracy has in dealing with cultural practices, such as female circumcision, which themselves suppress the liberal values of autonomy and pluralism. In this context I have chosen the justification of female circumcision as my issue for three reasons. First, with increasing immigration, in Western multicultural and pluralistic societies this practice has recently been given a good deal of public attention; second, I believe that it is time to put this cruel and (...)
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    Communitarianism and Western Thought.Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten - 2001 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 11:141-151.
    Within the Western tradition we can find important and interesting philosophical differences between the continental European and the Anglo-American ethical and political outlooks towards biotechnology. The Anglo-American attitude appears based on naturalistic and empiricist views, while continental European viewpoints are built on idealistic liberal humanism. A Northern European view integrates both of the above-mentioned liberal traditions. The main problem is that although these different outlooks can be said to be liberal in their common promotion of equality, autonomy, and individual rights, (...)
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    Failing states and ailing leadership in african politics in the era of globalization: Libertarian communitarianism and the kenyan experience.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2008 - Journal of Global Ethics 4 (2):155 – 169.
    The article discusses the Kenyan post-2007 elections political crisis within the framework of 'libertarian communitarianism' that integrates individualistic self-interest with traditional collectivist solidarity in the era of globalization in Africa. The author argues that behind the Kenyan post-election anarchy can be analyzed as a type of 'prisoner's dilemma' framework in which self-interested rationality is placed in a collectivist social contract setting. In Kenya, this has allowed political manipulation of ethnicity as well as bad governance, both of which have prevented the (...)
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  8. Global bioethics and 'erroneous reason': fallacies across the borders.Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten - 2010 - In Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, Peter Herissone-Kelly & Gardar Árnason (eds.), Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi.
     
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    (1 other version)Hiv/Aids Epidemic, Human Rights and Global Justice.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2005 - Politics and Ethics Review 1 (2):197-206.
  10. Leila Haaparanta and Ilkka Niiniluoto, eds., Analytic Philosophy in Finland Reviewed by.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2005 - Philosophy in Review 25 (2):111-113.
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    Moral Individualism and the Justification of Liberal Democracy.Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten - 1998 - Ratio Juris 11 (4):320-345.
    This article discusses the connection between individualism, pluralism and the moral foundation of liberal democracy. It analyses whether the requirement of value pluralism promoted by liberal democracies leads inevitably to communitarian ethics, or whether the liberal and democratic values of autonomy, tolerance and equality are actually based on an objectivistic and teleological account of justice. The author argues that value‐neutral procedural and methodological individualism cannot support the liberal demands for pluralism and tolerance in a democratic regime. Instead, the justification of (...)
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    (1 other version)P. H. COETZEE and A. P. J. ROUX (eds.), The African Philosophy Reader, 2nd ed. London: Routledge 2003.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2006 - Theoria 72 (2):154-161.
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    Transitional justice as a philosophical and practical challenge: critical notes on Colleen Murphy’s new theory of the ‘conceptual foundations of transitional justice’.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2018 - Journal of Global Ethics 14 (2):169-180.
    I examine some of the main philosophical, conceptual and normative issues in Colleen Murphy’s recent book The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (2017). I am sceptical whether we need yet another theory of justice to fit particular ‘transitional circumstances’, as Murphy argues. Instead, before presenting an alternative normative, ‘moral’ theory, we need to re-examine the very concept of transitional justice. I examine particularly the following. Firstly, what we really mean by ‘transitional justice’ in various contexts; and I argue that transitional (...)
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    (1 other version)Trust Me! My Hands Are Dirty Also.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2003 - Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 11 (1):55-81.
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    The Role of Philosophy in Global Bioethics.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2015 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (2):185-194.
    Abstract:This article examines the relationship between philosophy and culture in global bioethics. First, it studies what is meant by the term “global” in global bioethics. Second, the author introduces four different types, or recognizable trends, in philosophical inquiry in bioethics today. The main argument is that, in order to make better sense of the complexity of the ethical questions and challenges we face today across the globe, we need to embrace the universal nature of self-critical and analytical philosophical analysis and (...)
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    Women's rights and reproductive health care in a global perspective.Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten - 2000 - Journal of Social Philosophy 31 (4):382–390.
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    Bioethics in Tanzania: Legal and Ethical Concerns in Medical Care and Research in Relation to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic.Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2005 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (3):256-267.
    This article examines bioethics in Tanzania, particularly in relation to the HIV/AIDS epidemic for the following reasons: First, not only is HIV/AIDS the most alarming health problem in most parts of Africa, but the complexity of issues involved in medical and research ethics clearly illustrates the various levels of problems that bioethics—more precisely, both professional medical ethics and research ethics—faces in a poor, developing country. The article defends uniformity in the general, international bioethical guidelines but calls for wider discussion in (...)
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    Human rights in Africa: From communitarian values to utilitarian practice. [REVIEW]Sirkku K. Hellsten - 2004 - Human Rights Review 5 (2):61-85.