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Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity / Edition 1

Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity / Edition 1

by Ren-Zong Qiu
Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
1402017952
ISBN-13:
9781402017957
Pub. Date:
12/31/2003
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
ISBN-10:
1402017952
ISBN-13:
9781402017957
Pub. Date:
12/31/2003
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity / Edition 1

Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity / Edition 1

by Ren-Zong Qiu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781402017957
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 12/31/2003
Series: Philosophy and Medicine , #80
Edition description: 2004
Pages: 242
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bioethics and Asian Culture — A Quest for Moral Diversity.- Confucian and Western Notions of Human Need and Agency: Health Care and Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century.- Personhood and Bioethics: Chinese Perspective.- The Foundations of a Possible Asian Bioethics.- Confucian Personhood and Bioethics: A Critical Appraisal.- Rights or Virtues? Towards a Reconstructionist Confucian Bioethics.- Philippine Culture and Bioethics.- Living in Separation and Unequal Worlds: A Study in the Application of Bioethics.- Medical Ethics and Communicative Ethics.- “Sakit” and “Karamdamam”: Towards Authenticity in the Filipino Concepts of Disease and Illness.- Cloning Humans? — Some Moral Considerations.- Brain Death Criteria in Japan.- To Have a Good Birth as well as a Good Death: The Chinese Traditional View of Life and Its Implications.- Life, Death and End-of-Life Care: Taoist Perspective.- Euthanasia Should Be Legalized in China: Personal Perspective.- Chinese Population Policy: Good Choice and Right Choice.- Does Eugenics Exist in China? Ethical Issues in the Law on Maternal and Infant Health Care.- AIDS, Policy and Bioethics: A New Bioethical Framework for China’s HIV/AIDS Prevention.- Justice Is to Be Financed before It Is to Be Done: The Social Justice of the Hong Kong Public Health Care Reform.- Notes on Contributors.
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