Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality - Papers dedicated in tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)

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 bioethics'. Little thought was given at the time to the possibility that this field bore the imprint of a particular American set of moral commitments. This volume explores the plurality of moral perspectives shaping bioethics. It is inspired by Kazumasa Hoshino's critical reflections on the differences in moral perspectives separating Japanese and American bioethics. The essays include contributions from Hong Kong, China, Japan, Texas, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. The volume offers a rich perspective of the range of approaches to bioethics. It brings into question whether there is unambiguously one ethics for bioethics to apply.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Philosophy and Medicine, 74
Release date:	November 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr • L. M. Rasmussen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	306
Edition:	2003 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-6828-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics
LSN:	0-7923-6828-2
Barcode:	9780792368281

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