Bioethics and moral content : national traditions of health care morality : papers dedicated in tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino /
Is there only one bioethics? Is a global bioethics possible? Or, instead, does one encounter a plurality of bioethical approaches shaped by local cultural and national traditions? Some thirty years ago a field of applied ethics emerged under the rubric `bioethics'. Little thought was given at t...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2002.
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| Series: | Philosophy and medicine ;
v. 74. Philosophy and medicine. Asian studies in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine ; 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- The physician : professional or entrepreneur
- The physician-patient relationship and individualization of treatment from the view of traditional Chinese medical practice
- Medical technologies and universal ethics in transcultural perspective
- Brain death, pregnancy and cultural reluctance toward scientific rationalism
- Bioethics in Italy up to 2002 : an overview
- Development and identity of Swiss bioethics
- Death with dignity : cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the United States and Japan
- Euthanasia, individual choice and the family : a Hong Kong perspective
- Dissensus in the face of a passion for consensus : how the Japanese and the Germans could still understand one another
- Moral diversity and bioethics consultation
- The challenge of doing international bioethics
- Taking moral diversity seriously : a discussion of the foundations of global bioethics
- Coveting an international bioethics : universal aspirations and false promises
- Reconstructionist Confucianism and bioethics : a note on moral difference.