Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics, A
Contributors: Harold Coward (Editor); Pinit Ratanakul (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: April 16, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780889203259
Subjects: Business ethics; Medical ethics; Health Care Policy; Sociology Of Medicine; Health & Fitness; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Ethics; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Health Care Issues
Description: The ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health and illness, life and death, and the status of the individual suggest that a cross-cultural study of health care ethics is needed.

A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics provides this study. It shows that ethical questions can be resolved by examining the ethical principles present in each culture, critically assessing each value, and identifying common values found within all traditions.