Family-Oriented Informed Consent East Asian and American Perspective
This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. The goal is critically to explore the current individually oriented approach to informed consent which grew out of the dominant bioethics mo
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 121 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
ASIAN STUDIES IN BIOETHICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE 7 Series Editor Ruiping Fan, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Editorial 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
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Family-Oriented Informed Consent East Asian and American Perspectives
Editor Ruiping Fan Department of Public Policy City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR
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Acknowledgments
Most chapters included in this volume were discussed at an international conference titled, “Family-Oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives on a Cardinal Moral Practice,” held in Hong Kong, December 13–14, 2012. The conference was sponsored by the Department of Public Policy of the City University of Hong Kong. I am also grateful for funding provided by the Center for the Study of Culture, Ethics, and the Environment in Alaska. I thank Professor Ray Forrest, the Head of the Department of Publi
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