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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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.