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Chapter 1 A Brief History of Bioethics in Japan -- Chapter 2 Brain-death and organ transplantation: The first Japanese Path -- Chapter 3 Informed Consent, Familism, and the Nature of Autonomy -- Chapter 4 End-of-Life Care, Advance Directives, Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and The Goals of Medicine -- Chapter 5 The Moral Status of the Embryo: The Second Japanese Path -- Chapter 6 The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident -- Chapter 7 Outcome egalitarianism and opportunity egalitarianism -- Chapter 8 Research Regulations, Ethics Committees, and Confronting Global Standards -- Chapter 9 Modern Medical Professionalism -- Chapter 10 What does it mean to be truly "interdisciplinary"? -- Chapter 11 Rebirthing Bioethics: Going Global.

Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Birth of Bioethics -- Chapter 1: The Beginning of Life -- Chapter 2: The Decision Makers -- Chapter 3: The End of Life -- Chapter 4: Research and Development -- Chapter 5: Genetic Testing and Engineering -- Chapter 6: The Future of Bioethics: Stem Cell Research and Cloning -- Notes -- Discussion Questions -- Organizations to Contact -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Abbreviations -- 1 What is bioethics? -- Introduction -- History -- What about the law? -- Methods -- Applications -- How to use this book -- Resources and further reading -- 2 Moral theories -- Introduction -- Counting the consequences -- Doing one's duty -- Being a good person - virtue ethics -- Brotherhood and sisterhood - communitarianism -- Live free or die - libertarianism -- A balancing act - the four principles -- Resources and further reading -- Exercise -- 3 Perspectives -- Introduction -- Gendered agendas - feminist approaches -- To care or not to care? -- Culture and religion -- Conclusion -- Resources and further reading -- Exercises -- 4 Clinical ethics -- Introduction -- The clinical relationship - a conspiracy against the laity? -- Life before birth -- Transplantation and regenerative medicine -- Mental health -- The end of life -- After death -- Conclusions -- Resources and further reading -- Exercises -- 5 Research -- Introduction -- Research ethics -- Research integrity -- Research and the future -- Conclusion -- Resources and further reading -- Exercises -- 6 Justice -- Introduction -- Public health ethics -- Fair access and the paradox of health care -- Global inequity in health -- Global survival -- Resources and further reading -- Exercises -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics -- Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics -- Body, Health and Virtue -- Confucian Virtues and Personal Health -- The Neo-Confucian Concept of Body and its Ethical Sensibility -- Suicide, Euthanasia and Medical Futility -- Confucian Views on Suicide and Their Implications for Euthanasia -- Reflections on the Dignity of Guan Zhong: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Liberal Notions of Suicide -- A Confucian Ethic of Medical Futility -- "Human Drugs" and Human Experimentation -- "Human Drugs" in Chinese Medicine and the Confucian View: An Interpretive Study -- Interpreting Strange Practices -- A Confucian Reflection on Experimenting with Human Subjects -- Just Health Care and the Confucian Tradition -- The Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents -- Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism.

Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.

"This book studies the critical issues that dominate contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics. It brings together various debates highlighting the historical, philosophical, scientific, and technological perspectives involved in modern medicine in different societies, with a focus on contemporary medicine in India. The volume provides a comprehensive look into the origin and evolution of bioethics with an examination of how complex bioethical issues are negotiated in different contexts. The author traces the transition from traditional to modern bioethics and examines important bioethical frameworks to deal with moral dilemmas and challenges. He also contemplates the future of bioethics with an emphasis on regulation in practice to prevent repression and exploitation in medicine. A comprehensive study of contemporary approaches to bioethics, the book will be indispensable for students, professionals, and researchers in public health, ethics, biomedical ethics, medicine, philosophy, sociology, public policy, and anthropology"--

Providing readers with the confidence needed to debate key issues in bioethics, this introductory text clearly explains bioethical theories and their philosophical foundations. Over 250 activities introduce topics for personal reflection, and discussion points encourage students to think for themselves and build their own arguments. Highlighting the potential pitfalls for those new to bioethics, each chapter features boxes providing factual information and outlining the philosophical background, along with detailed case studies that offer an insight into real-life examples of bioethical problems. Within-chapter essay questions and quizzes, along with end-of-chapter review questions, allow students to check their understanding and to broaden their thinking about the topics discussed. The accompanying podcasts by the author (two of whose podcasts on iTunesUTM have attracted over 3 million downloads) explain points that might be difficult for beginners. These, along with a range of extra resources for students and instructors, are available at www.cambridge.org/bioethics.