Bioethics-- Asian perspectives : a quest for moral diversity /

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 wes...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Qiu, Renzong
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004]
Series:Philosophy and medicine ; 80.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.