Hindu bioethics for the twenty-first century / S. Cromwell Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, S. Cromwell.

Series:

SUNY series in religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Bioethics.

Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores contemporary controversies in bioethics from a Hindu perspective.

Contents:

Intro

Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS

1. Hindu Ethics

2. Indian Medicine

3. A Hindu Bioethical Analysis of Health/Disease and Physician/Patient Relationships in American Society

PART TWO: ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF LIFE

4. Technology and the Womb

5. Dilemmas at Birth

6. When Parents Let Children Suffer for Reasons of Faith

7. The Ethics of Contraception

8. The Ethics of Prenatal Diagnosis for Sex Selection

9. The Ethics of the Human Genome Project

10. The Ethics of Genetic Engineering

11. The Ethics of Cloning

12. The Ethics of Population Growth

13. The Ethics of Aging: Maximizing the Quality of Later Life

14. The Ethics of Death and Dying

NOTES

1. HINDU ETHICS

2. INDIAN MEDICINE

3. HINDU BIOETHICAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH/DISEASE AND PHYSICIAN/PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

4. TECHNOLOGY AND THE WOMB

5. DILEMMAS AT BIRTH

6. WHEN PARENTS LET CHILDREN SUFFER FOR REASONS OF FAITH

7. THE ETHICS OF CONTRACEPTION

8. THE ETHICS OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS FOR SEX SELECTION

9. THE ETHICS OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT

10. THE ETHICS OF GENETIC ENGINEERING

11. THE ETHICS OF CLONING

12. THE ETHICS OF POPULATION GROWTH

13. THE ETHICS OF AGING: MAXIMIZING THE QUALITY OF LATER LIFE

14. THE ETHICS OF DEATH AND DYING

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8658-3

1-4175-0687-3

OCLC:

61367824