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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2004]
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| Series: | Philosophy and medicine ;
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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.