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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PREFACE vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
JULIA TAO LAI PO-WAH / Global Bioethics, Global Dialogue:
Introduction 1
H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT, JR. / Morality, Universality,
and Particularity: Rethinking the Role of Community in the
Foundations of Bioethics 19 PART I / COMMUNITY AND CARE: LOST
PERSPECTIVES?
JULIA TAO LAI PO-WAH / Is Just Caring Possible? Challenge to
Bioethics in the New Century 41
FR. THOMAS JOSEPH / Living and Dying in a Post-traditional World 59 PART II / THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF GLOBAL
BIOETHICS
REN-ZONG QIU / The Tension between Biomedical Technology and
Confucian Values 71
HU XINHE / On Relational Paradigm in Bioethics 89
GERHOLD K. BECKER / The Ethics of Prenatal Screening and the
Search for Global Bioethics 105
IAN HOLLIDAY / Genetic Engineering and Social Justice: Towards a
Global Bioethics? 131
CORINNA DELKESKAMP-HAYES / Global Biomedicine, Human
Dignity, and the Moral Justification of Political Power 149
SHUI CHUEN LEE / The Reappraisal of the Foundations of Bioethics:
A Confucian Perspective 179
PART III / MORAL DILEMMAS IN HEALTH CARE
YU KAM POR / Self-ownership and Its Implications for Bioethics 197
SARAH MARCHAND AND DANIEL WIKLER / Health Inequalities and
Justice 209
CHAN HO MUN AND ANTHONY FUNG / Managing Medical
Information: The Moral Dilemmas in Postmoder Societies 223
KURT W. SCHMIDT / Stabilizing or Changing Identity? The Ethical
Problem of Sex Reassignment Surgery as a Conflict among the
Individual, Community, and Society 237
STEPHEN MAN-HUNG SZE / Homosexuality and the Use of
Reproductive Technology 265
GEORGE KHUSHF / The Domain of Parental Discretion in Treatment
of Neonates: Beyond the Impasse between a Sanctity-of-Life and
Quality-of-Life Ethic 277
DERRICK K. S. AU / Ethics and Narrative in Evidence-Based
Medicine 299 PART IV / NEW STRATEGIES, NEW POSSIBILITIES
MARY ANN G. CUTTER / Local Bioethical Discourse: Implications
for Understanding Disease 319
CHUNG-YING CHENG / Bioethics and Philosophy of Bioethics:
A New Orientation 335
HYAKUDAI SAKAMOTO / A New Possibility of Global Bioethics
as an Intercultural Social Tuning Technology 359
RUIPING FAN / Moral Theories vs. Moral Perspectives:
The Need for a New Strategy for Bioethical Exploration 369
NOTES ON EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS 391
INDEX 393.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Dordrecht, Boston
Series
Philosophy and medicine -- v. 71, Asian studies in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine -- 2, Philosophy and medicine -- v. 71, Philosophy and medicine
Genre
Cross-cultural studies.

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Dewey Decimal Class
174/.957
Library of Congress
R725.5 .C763 2002, R1

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 399 p. ;
Number of pages
399

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Open Library
OL20645095M
Internet Archive
crossculturalper0000unse_x9p9
ISBN 10
1402004982
LCCN
2002023578
OCLC/WorldCat
49416028
Goodreads
623007

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