Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality
Is there only one bioethics? Is a global bioethics possible? Or, instead, does one encounter a plurality of bioethical approaches shaped by local cultural and national traditions? Some thirty years ago a field of applied ethics emerged under the rubric `b
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME74
Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spieker Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Associate Editor Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Department of Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
ASIAN STUDIES IN BIOETHICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE 3
Series Editor Ruiping Fan, Department of Public & Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Editorial Advisory Board Kazumasa Hoshino, Kyoto Women's University, Kyoto, Japan Shui Chuen Lee, National Central University, Chung-li, Taiwan Ping-cheung Lo, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ren-Zong Qiu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
BIOETHICS AND MORAL CONTENT: NATIONAL TRADITIONS OF HEALTH CARE MORALITY Papers dedicated in tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino Edited by
H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, JR. Department of Philosophy, Rice University and Baylor College rif Medicine, Houston, USA and
LISA M. RASMUSSEN Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, USA
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-5658-0 ISBN 978-94-017-0902-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-0902-6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, JR. AND LISA M. RASMUSSEN I Bioethics in the Plural: An Introduction to taking Global Moral Diversity Seriously
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PART I I PHYSICIAN VIRTUE AND NATIONAL TRADITIONS ROBERT M. VEATCH I The Physician: Professional or Entrepreneur TANGJIA WANG I The Physician-Patient Relationship and
Individualization of Treatment from the View of Traditional Chinese Medical Practice
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PART II I MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES AND NATIONAL BIOETHICS HANS-MARTIN SASS I Medical Technologies and Universal Ethics in Transcultural Perspective 49 KURT BAYERTZ AND KURT W. SCHMIDT I Brain Death, Pregnancy and 77 Cultural Reluctance toward Scientific Rationalism MAURIZIO MORI I Bioethics in Italy up to 2002: An Overview 97 FABRICE JOTTERAND I Development and Identity of Swiss Bioethics 121
PART III I DEATH, CULTURE, AND MORAL DIFFERENCE I Death with Dignity: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the United States and Japan HO MUN CHAN I Euthanasia, Individual Choice and the Family: A Hong Kong Perspective CORINNA DELKESKAMP-HAYES I Dissensus in the Face of a Passion for Consensus: How the Japanese and the Germans Could Still Understand One Another
MICHAEL D. FETTERS AND MARION DANIS
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