Table of Contents

Introduction; P.F. Camenisch. Section I: Methods of Biomedical Ethics in the Religious Traditions. Hindu Bioethics; K.K. Young. Methodology of Buddhist Biomedical Ethics; S. Taniguchi. Taoist Bioethics in the Final Age: Therapy and Salvation in the Book of Divine Incantations for Penetrating the Abyss; R.F. Campany. Islam and Medical Ethics; J. Kelsay. Method in Jewish Bioethics; D.S. Davis. Text and Tradition in Contemporary Jewish Bioethics; L.E. Newman. Section II: Methodological Questions across Traditions. Bioethics and Impartial Rationality: the Search for Neutrality; M.M. Mendiola. The Confessor as Experienced Physician: Casuistry and Clinical Ethics; A.R. Jonsen. Ethical Theories, Principles, and Casuistry in Bioethics: an Interpretation and Defense of Principalism; J.F. Childress. Why the Virtures are not Another Approach to Medical Ethics: Reconceiving the Place of Ethics in Contemporary Medicine; L.G. Jones, R.P. Vance. Elements of a Feminist Approach to Bioethics; B.H. Andolsen. Section III: Methodological Focii and Resources within a Tradition. Scripture and Medical Ethics: Psalm 51:10a, the Jarvik VII, and Psalm 50:9; A. Verhey. A Moral Matrix: Religious Practices and Health Care; T.F. Sedgwick. On Being Medieval without Menace: Catholic Magisterial Teaching as a Source for Bioethics; P. Lauritzen. On Donating Bone Marrow to an Unknown Half-Brother: a Guided Tour through a Liberal Jewish Responsum on a Biomedical Issue; F.L. Weiss. Index.