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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

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.

The coming of bioethics -- The coming of bioethicists -- Choices on our conscience: the inauguration of the Kennedy Institute -- Hello, Dolly: bioethics in the media -- Celebrating bioethics and bioethicists -- Thinking socially and culturally in bioethics -- Reminiscences of observing participants -- Bioethics circles the globe -- Bioethics in France -- The development of bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan -- The coming of the culture wars to American bioethics