Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Qiu, Ren-Zong[Herausgeber]

Titel

Bioethics: Asian Perspectives : A Quest for Moral Diversity

Ist Teil von

• Philosophy and Medicine : 80

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction: Bioethics and Asian Culture �́� A Quest for Moral Diversity -- Confucian and Western Notions of Human Need and Agency: Health Care and Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century -- Personhood and Bioethics: Chinese Perspective -- The Foundations of a Possible Asian Bioethics -- Confucian Personhood and Bioethics: A Critical Appraisal -- Rights or Virtues? Towards a Reconstructionist Confucian Bioethics -- Philippine Culture and Bioethics -- Living in Separation and Unequal Worlds: A Study in the Application of Bioethics -- Medical Ethics and Communicative Ethics -- �́�Sakit�́� and �́�Karamdamam�́�: Towards Authenticity in the Filipino Concepts of Disease and Illness -- Cloning Humans? �́� Some Moral Considerations -- Brain Death Criteria in Japan -- To Have a Good Birth as well as a Good Death: The Chinese Traditional View of Life and Its Implications -- Life, Death and End-of-Life Care: Taoist Perspective -- Euthanasia Should Be Legali
• Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity: - is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars; - unfolds a rich and colourful picture; - addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics; - covers many topics including the intellectual foundation of Asian bioethics, bioethics and Asian culture, life and death, euthanasia and end-of-life care in Asia; - shows in its discussions moral diversity in Asia; - sheds light on the debate about universal ethics, global ethics and moral diversity. The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in bioethics as well as for bioethicists, philosophers, physicians, scholars of Asian and culture studies, geneticists, sinologists, medical anthropologists, health administrators, health officials for relations with Asia, foundation officers for health programs in Asia, western journalists in Asia and officers of international organizations for Asia