Introduction

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]