Bioethics: Asian Perspectives

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. Language: English