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  title info:
    title: Bioethics-- Asian perspectives
    sub title: a quest for moral diversity
  name:
    name part: Qiu, Renzong.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Confucian and western nations of human need and agency / Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah -- Personhood and bioethics / Edwin Hui -- Foundations of a possible Asian bioethics / Hyyakudai Sakamoto -- Confucian personhood and bioethics / Po-Keung Ip -- Rights or virtues? / Ruiping Fan -- Philippine culture and bioethics / Angeles T. Alora -- Living in separation and unequal worlds / V. Manickavel -- Medical ethics and communicative ethics / Un-Jong Pak -- "Sakit" and "Karamdamam" / Leonardo D. De Castro and Allen Andrew A. Alvarez -- Cloning humans? / Phee Seng Kang -- Brain death criteria in Japan / Kazuo Takeuchi -- To have a good birth as well as a good death / Ming-Xian Shen -- Life, death and end-of-life care / Ping Dong and Xiaoyan Wang -- Euthanasia should be legalized in China / Da-Pu Shi and Lin Yu -- Chinese population policy / Re-Feng Tang -- Does eugenics exist in China? / Re-Zong Qiu -- Policy and bioethics / Yan-Guang Wang -- Justice is to be financed before it is to be done / Ho-Mun Chan.
  note: edited by Ren-Zong Qiu.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a------
  subject:
    topic: Bioethics
    geographic: Asia
  subject:
    topic: Medical ethics
    geographic: Asia
  subject:
    topic: Bioethics
    geographic: Asia
  subject:
    topic: Ethics, Medical
    geographic: Asia
  subject:
    topic: Bio-ethiek
  subject:
    topic: Medizinische Ethik
  subject:
    topic: Aufsatzsammlung
  subject:
    topic: Bioethik
  subject:
    geographic: Asien
  subject:
    topic: Bioethics
  subject:
    topic: Medical ethics
  subject:
    geographic: Asia
  classification: QH332 .B5172 2004eb
  classification: 174/.957/095
  classification: W3 PH609 v.80 2004
  classification: WB 60 B6154 2004
  classification: 44.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Bioethics-- Asian perspectives
    identifier: (DLC) 2003064113
    identifier: (OCoLC)53485073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Philosophy and medicine ; 80
  identifier: 9789401704199 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401704198 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1402017952
  identifier: 9781402017957
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 131029
    record change date: 20260422205628.9
    record identifier: in00003556170
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng