Bioethics : Asian perspectives : a quest for moral diversity
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Bioethics : Asian perspectives : a quest for moral diversity
(Philosophy and medicine, 80)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars. The book unfolds a rich and colorful picture and addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics. It is of interest to senior undergraduate and graduate students, philosophers, physicians, scholars of Asian and culture studies, geneticists, sinologists, medical anthropologists, health administrators, and health officials.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Bioethics and Asian Culture - A Quest for Moral Diversity
- Ren-Zong Qiu. I: The Foundations of Bioethics in Asia. Confucian and Western Notions of Human Need and Agency: Health Care and Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century
- J. Tao Lai Po-Wah. Personhood and Bioethics: Chinese Perspective
- E. Hui. The Foundations of a Possible Asian Bioethics
- H. Sakamoto. Confucian Personhood and Bioethics: A Critical Appraisal
- Po-Keung Ip. Rights or Virtues? Towards a Reconstructionist Confucian Bioethics
- Ruiping Fan. II: Bioethics in Asian Culture: Global or Local? Philippine Culture and Bioethics
- A.T. Alora. Living in Separation and Unequal Worlds: A Study in the Application of Bioethics
- V. Manickavel. Medical Ethics and Communicative Ethics
- Un-Jong Pak. 'Sakit' and 'Karamdamam': Towards Authenticity in the Filipino Concepts of Disease and Illness
- L.D. de Castro, A.A.A. Alvarez. III: Life, Death, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care. Cloning Humans? Some Moral Considerations
- Phee Seng Kang. Brain Death Criteria in Japan
- K. Takeuchi. To Have a Good Birth as Well as a Good Death: The Chinese Traditional View of Life and Its Implications
- Ming-Xian Shen. Life, Death and End-of-Life Care: Taoist Perspective
- Ping Dong, Xiaoyan Wang. Euthanasia Should be Legalized in China: Personal Perspective
- Da-Pu Shi, Lin Yu. IV: Bioethics, Policy and Law in Asia. Chinese Population Policy: Good Choice and Right Choice
- Re-Feng Tang. Does Eugenics Exist in China? Ethical Issues in the Law on Maternal and Infant Health Care
- Ren-Zong Qiu. AIDS, Policy and Bioethics: A New Bioethical Framework for China's HIV/AIDS Prevention
- Yan-Guang Wang. Justice is to be Financed before it is to be Done: The Social Justice of the Hong Kong Public Health Care Reform
- Ho-Mun Chan. Notes on Contributors. Index.
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