Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity:

• is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars;

• unfolds a rich and colourful picture;

• addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics;

• covers many topics including the intellectual foundation of Asian bioethics, bioethics and Asian culture, life and death, euthanasia and end-of-life care in Asia;

• shows in its discussions moral diversity in Asia;

• sheds light on the debate about universal ethics, global ethics and moral diversity. The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in bioethics as well as for bioethicists, philosophers, physicians, scholars of Asian and culture studies, geneticists, sinologists, medical anthropologists, health administrators, health officials for relations with Asia, foundation officers for health programs in Asia, western journalists in Asia and officers of international organizations for Asia.

From the reviews:

"This volume can be regarded as the latest contribution in a series of works that attempt to explore an original path towards modernity. This approach, rooted in the fields of bioethics, is said to be nursed by sources of East Asian traditions and to respond to the characteristics of the different societies in the region. For a European observer, this book provides a welcome opportunity to discuss the achievements of this school in some detail." (Ole Döring, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, Vol. 25, 2007)

Klappentext

Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity: - is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars; - unfolds a rich and colourful picture; - addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics; - covers many topics including the intellectual foundation of Asian bioethics, bioethics and Asian culture, life and death, euthanasia and end-of-life care in Asia; - shows in its discussions moral diversity in Asia; - sheds light on the debate about universal ethics, global ethics and moral diversity. The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in bioethics as well as for bioethicists, philosophers, physicians, scholars of Asian and culture studies, geneticists, sinologists, medical anthropologists, health administrators, health officials for relations with Asia, foundation officers for health programs in Asia, western journalists in Asia and officers of international organizations for Asia.

Inhalt
Introduction: Bioethics and Asian Culture A Quest for Moral Diversity.- Confucian and Western Notions of Human Need and Agency: Health Care and Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century.- Personhood and Bioethics: Chinese Perspective.- The Foundations of a Possible Asian Bioethics.- Confucian Personhood and Bioethics: A Critical Appraisal.- Rights or Virtues? Towards a Reconstructionist Confucian Bioethics.- Philippine Culture and Bioethics.- Living in Separation and Unequal Worlds: A Study in the Application of Bioethics.- Medical Ethics and Communicative Ethics.- Sakit and Karamdamam: Towards Authenticity in the Filipino Concepts of Disease and Illness.- Cloning Humans? Some Moral Considerations.- Brain Death Criteria in Japan.- To Have a Good Birth as well as a Good Death: The Chinese Traditional View of Life and Its Implications.- Life, Death and End-of-Life Care: Taoist Perspective.- Euthanasia Should Be Legalized in China: Personal Perspective.- Chinese Population Policy: Good Choice and Right Choice.- Does Eugenics Exist in China? Ethical Issues in the Law on Maternal and Infant Health Care.- AIDS, Policy and Bioethics: A New Bioethical Framework for China's HIV/AIDS Prevention.- Justice Is to Be Financed before It Is to Be Done: The Social Justice of the Hong Kong Public Health Care Reform.- Notes on Contributors.