Japanese and Western Bioethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in Moral Diversity

   1. Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in Moral Diversity

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

      Pages 1-10

3. Ethical Universality and Cultural Particularity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Bioethics in the Light of Japanese Sentiments

      • Kazumasa Hoshino

      Pages 13-23

   3. Comparative Studies: Japan and America

      • Tom L. Beauchamp

      Pages 25-47

   4. Nursing Perspectives in Bioethics

      • Joy Hinson Penticuff

      Pages 49-60

   5. The Characteristics of Japanese Concepts and Attitudes with Regard to Human Remains

      • Emiko Namihira

      Pages 61-69

4. Traditions, Authorities and Ambiguities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Technology, Authority and the Loss of Tradition: The Roots of American Bioethics in Comparison with Japanese Bioethics

      • Gerald P. Mckenny

      Pages 73-87

   3. Sanctity of Life: A Study in Ambiguity and Confusion

      • Kevin Wm. Wildes

      Pages 89-101

   4. Quality of Life Decisions and the Hopelessly Ill Patient: The Physician as Moral Agent and Truth Teller

      • Edward W. Keyserlingk

      Pages 103-116

5. Death, Life, and Well-Being

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Autonomy and Communitarianism: The Ethics of Terminal Care in Cross-Cultural Perspective

      • Robert M. Veatch

      Pages 119-129

   3. A Thought on Terminal Care in Japan

      • Fumio Yamazaki

      Pages 131-134

   4. Medical Futility: Philosophical Reflections on Death

      • Baruch Brody

      Pages 135-144

   5. Facing Death the Japanese Way — Customs and Ethos

      • Shigeaki Hinohara

      Pages 145-154

   6. Ethos and Its Changes: A Commentary on ‘Facing Death the Japanese Way — Customs and Ethos’

      • Gen Ohi

      Pages 155-159

   7. The Concept of Happiness in Oriental Thought and Its Significance in Clinical Medicine

      • Akira Akabayashi

      Pages 161-164

6. The Human Genome: Taboos and Moral Intuitions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. The Normative Status of the Human Genome: A European Perspective

      • Kurt Bayertz

      Pages 167-180

The editors of the Philosophy and Medicine series recognize with grat­ itude the foresight, understanding, hard labor, and patience of Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino. It is his perseverance that has made this volume a reality. It was his faith in ideas that brought together a cluster of scholars in Tokyo on September 2-4, 1994, at Sophia University for a U. S. -J apan Bioethics Congress. With the support of the Foundation for Advance­ ment of International Science, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, the Foundation of Thanatology, the Japanese Center for Quality of Life Studies, and Sophia University, scholars from Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United States were able to explore the differ­ ences and similarities in their approaches to bioethics and health care policy. That conference first produced a volume through Shibunkaku Publishers of Kyoto that appeared in 1995 in J apanese: The Dignity of Death, edited by Kazumasa Hoshino. Selections from those materials have been reworked for an English audience and now appear, along with new essays, in this volume. The field of comparative bioethics is only in its infancy. We are deeply grateful to Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino, one of the fathers of J apanese bioethics, for having made this volume possible. H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Stuart F. Spicker Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This volume's editors and Kluwer Academic Publishers wish to thank Shibunkaku Press, Kyoto, Japan, for permission to publish, without charge, essays derived from the U. S.

• Beauchamp
• Ethical Issues
• Ethos
• Moral
• american bioethics
• autonomy
• bioethics
• death
• ethics
• health

• International Bioethics Research Center, Institute of Religion and Culture, Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan

  Kazumasa Hoshino

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