Overview

The essays in this volume, while exploring bioethical issues bearing on death and dying, the use of scarce resources, and genetic interventions, also implicitly compare approaches to bioethics in Japan versus Western countries. This volume provides a cross-cultural comparison of Japanese, American and European approaches to bioethics and health care policy. In a world of international bioethics, it explores the similarities and dissimilarities between bioethics in Japan and the Western world. The collection gives both a portrayal of current approaches as well as an analysis of the character and grounds for the similarities and dissimilarities. The similarities reflect attempts to find morally justified bases for collaboration when individuals do not share taken-for-granted understandings of the proper use of health care, the meaning or form of a good death, and the correct ways to collaborate. Similarities also derive from Western bioethical reflections that have been exported to Japan, which, for better or worse, have entered and altered traditional Japanese understandings. Japan and the West have been exposed to the post-traditional character of the age. Many of the dissimilarities stem from the fact that Japan remains in large measure a traditional society with strong ties to family, culture and community. Japanese share many common understandings of values, while the West has long struggled with moral diversity. These essays explore particular bioethics, which reflect particular moral commitments, as contributions to the emerging international dialogue concerning bioethics and health care policy.

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Author:   K. Hoshino
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1996 ed.
Volume:   54
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.210kg
ISBN:  

9780792341123

ISBN 10:   0792341120
Pages:   247
Publication Date:   30 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in Moral Diversity.- I Ethical Universality and Cultural Particularity.- Bioethics in the Light of Japanese Sentiments.- Comparative Studies: Japan and America.- Nursing Perspectives in Bioethics.- The Characteristics of Japanese Concepts and Attitudes with Regard to Human Remains.- II Traditions, Authorities and Ambiguities.- Technology, Authority and the Loss of Tradition: The Roots of American Bioethics in Comparison with Japanese Bioethics.- Sanctity of Life: A Study in Ambiguity and Confusion.- Quality of Life Decisions and the Hopelessly Ill Patient: The Physician as Moral Agent and Truth Teller.- III Death, Life, and Well-Being.- Autonomy and Communitarianism: The Ethics of Terminal Care in Cross-Cultural Perspective.- A Thought on Terminal Care in Japan.- Medical Futility: Philosophical Reflections on Death.- Facing Death the Japanese Way — Customs and Ethos.- Ethos and its Changes: A Commentary on Facing Death the Japanese Way — Customs and Ethos.- The Concept of Happiness in Oriental Thought and its Significance in Clinical Medicine.- IV The Human Genome: Taboos and Moral Intuitions.- The Normative Status of the Human Genome: A European Perspective.- Moral Puzzles Concerning the Human Genome: Western Taboos, Intuitions, and Beliefs at the End of the Christian Era.- V Cross Cultural Diversity and Post-Traditional Morality.- Three Levels of Problems in Cross-Cultural Explorations of Bioethics: A Methodological Approach.- Moral Strangers: A Humanity that Does Not Bind.- Notes on Contributors.

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