Bioethics and moral content
Subtitle: national traditions of health care morality : papers dedicated in tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino
By: edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Lisa M. Rasmussen
Contributors: Engelhardt, H. Tristram 1941-; Rasmussen, Lisa M
Series: Philosophy and medicine -- v. 74; Asian studies in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine -- 3; Philosophy and medicine -- v. 3
Publisher: Kluwer Academic; Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Hoshino, Kazumasa; Bioethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The physician: professional or entrepreneur; title: Ch. 2. The physician-patient relationship and individualization of treatment from the view of traditional Chinese medical practice; title: Ch. 3. Medical technologies and universal ethics in transcultural perspective; title: Ch. 4. Brain death, pregnancy and cultural reluctance toward scientific rationalism; title: Ch. 5. Bioethics in Italy up to 2002: an overview; title: Ch. 6. Development and identity of Swiss bioethics; title: Ch. 7. Death with dignity: cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the United States and Japan; title: Ch. 8. Euthanasia, individual choice and the family: a Hong Kong perspective; title: Ch. 9. Dissensus in the face of a passion for consensus: how the Japanese and the Germans could still understand one another; title: Ch. 10. Moral diversity and bioethics consultation; title: Ch. 11. The challenge of doing international bioethics; title: Ch. 12. Taking moral diversity seriously: a discussion of the foundations of global bioethics; title: Ch. 13. Coveting an international bioethics: universal aspirations and false promises; title: Ch. 14. Reconstructionist Confucianism and bioethics: a note on moral difference