Cross-cultural issues in bioethics : the example of human cloning / edited by Heiner Roetz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roetz, Heiner, 1950-

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 27.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human cloning.

Cross-cultural studies.

Moral & Ethical Aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Human cloning is a main focus of current bioethical discussion. Involving the self-understanding of the human species, it has become one of the most debated topics in biomedical ethics, not only on the national, but also on the international level. This book brings together articles by bioethicists from several countries who address questions of human cloning within the context of different cultural, religious and regional settings against the background of globalizing biotechnology. It explores on a cross-cultural level the problems and opportunities of global bioethics.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Heiner Roetz

The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Sprouts of Human Life / Masahiro Morioka

Cloning in Japan: Public Opinion, Expert Counselling, and Bioethical Reasoning / Robert Horres , Hans Dieter ölschleger , and Christian Steineck

Cloning Issues in China / Qiu Renzong

Culture and Bioethics in the Debate on the Ethics of Human Cloning in China / Ole Döring

Chinese Ethics and Human Cloning: A View from Hong Kong / Gerhold K. Becker

Current Debates on 'Human Cloning' in Korea / Chin Kyo-hun

The Cloning Debate in South Korea / Phillan Joung and Marion Eggert

Some Observations on Buddhist Thoughts on Human Cloning / Jens Schlieter

Human Cloning: Thai Buddhist Perspectives / Pinit Ratanakul

The Ethics of Human Cloning. With Reference to the Malaysian Bioethical Discourse

The Charm of Biotechnology: Human Cloning and Hindu Bioethics in Perspective / Wessler Heinz Werner

Cultural and Religious in Islamic Biomedicine: The Case of Human Cloning / Abdulaziz Sachedina

The Debate about Human Cloning Among Muslim Religious Scholars since 1997 / Eich Thomas

The Debate on Human Cloning: Some Contributions from the Jewish Tradition / Y. Michael Barilan

Bioethics in the Perspective of Universalization / Christofer Frey

The American Debate on Human Cloning / Nigel M de S. Cameron

Primordial Ownership versus Dispossession of the Body. A Contribution to the Problem of Cloning from the Perspective of Classical European Philosophy of Law

Human Cloning as a Challenge to Traditional Health Care Cultures

Let Probands and Patients Decide About Moral Risk in Stern Cell Research and Medical Treatment

Human Reproductive Cloning: A Test Case for Individual Rights?

Epilogue: Cross-Cultural Discourse in Bioethics: It's a Small World After All

Notes on Contributors

Back Matter.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0115-3

1-4237-8760-9

OCLC:

714568430

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401201155 DOI