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Bioethics and moral content : national traditions of health care morality : papers dedicated in tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino / edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Lisa M. Rasmussen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Philosophy and medicine. Asian studies in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine ; v. 74.
- Philosophy and medicine ; v. 74.
- Philosophy and medicine ; v. 74
- Philosophy and medicine. Asian studies in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bioethics.
- Hoshino, Kazumasa.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 297 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2002]
- Summary:
- Is there only one bioethics? Is a global bioethics possible? Or, instead, does one encounter a plurality of bioethical approaches shaped by local cultural and national traditions? Some thirty years ago a field of applied ethics emerged under the rubric bioethics'. Little thought was given at the time to the possibility that this field bore the imprint of a particular American set of moral commitments. This volume explores the plurality of moral perspectives shaping bioethics. It is inspired by Kazumasa Hoshino's critical reflections on the differences in moral perspectives separating Japanese and American bioethics. The essays include contributions from Hong Kong, China, Japan, Texas, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. The volume offers a rich perspective of the range of approaches to bioethics. It brings into question whether there is unambiguously one ethics for bioethics to apply.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. The physician: professional or entrepreneur
- Ch. 2. The physician-patient relationship and individualization of treatment from the view of traditional Chinese medical practice
- Ch. 3. Medical technologies and universal ethics in transcultural perspective
- Ch. 4. Brain death, pregnancy and cultural reluctance toward scientific rationalism
- Ch. 5. Bioethics in Italy up to 2002: an overview
- Ch. 6. Development and identity of Swiss bioethics
- Ch. 7. Death with dignity: cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the United States and Japan
- Ch. 8. Euthanasia, individual choice and the family: a Hong Kong perspective
- Ch. 9. Dissensus in the face of a passion for consensus: how the Japanese and the Germans could still understand one another
- Ch. 10. Moral diversity and bioethics consultation
- Ch. 11. The challenge of doing international bioethics
- Ch. 12. Taking moral diversity seriously: a discussion of the foundations of global bioethics
- Ch. 13. Coveting an international bioethics: universal aspirations and false promises
- Ch. 14. Reconstructionist Confucianism and bioethics: a note on moral difference.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0792368282
- OCLC:
- 52302453
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