Bioethics Across the Globe : Rebirthing Bioethics / by Akira Akabayashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akabayashi, Akira, 1958- author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Medicine (Springer-11650)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

Local Subjects:

Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 146 pages) : 22 illustrations, 12 illustrations in color

Edition:

First edition 2020.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides where it stands on these issues. In the last chapter, the author proposes discarding the overarching term 'Global Bioethics' in favor of the new term, 'Bioethics Across the Globe (BAG)', which carries a more universal connotation. This book serves as an excellent tool to help readers understand a different culture and to initiate deep and genuine global dialogue that incorporates local and global thinking on bioethics. Bioethics Across the Globe is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of bioethics/medical ethics interested in adopting cross-cultural approaches, as well as graduate and undergraduate students of healthcare and philosophy.

Contents:

Chapter 1 A Brief History of Bioethics in Japan

Chapter 2 Brain-death and organ transplantation: The first Japanese Path

Chapter 3 Informed Consent, Familism, and the Nature of Autonomy

Chapter 4 End-of-Life Care, Advance Directives, Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and The Goals of Medicine

Chapter 5 The Moral Status of the Embryo: The Second Japanese Path

Chapter 6 The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Chapter 7 Outcome egalitarianism and opportunity egalitarianism

Chapter 8 Research Regulations, Ethics Committees, and Confronting Global Standards

Chapter 9 Modern Medical Professionalism

Chapter 10 What does it mean to be truly "interdisciplinary"?

Chapter 11 Rebirthing Bioethics: Going Global.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-981-15-3572-7

9789811535727

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.