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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.

The Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics. Volume 4 provides a comprehensive single-volume summary of recent international and regional developments on specific topics in bioethics. To give uniformity to the discussions all authors were asked to report on the following topics: new reproductive technologies, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, case of severely disabled newborns, consent of treatment and experimentation, confidentiality, equitable access to health care, ethical concerns raised by cost-containment measures, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment, active euthanasia, the definition of death, organ donation and transplantation, and a final broad category of other issues. The internationally respected contributors report on the following 16 areas: the United States, Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Spain/Portugal/Italy, Scandinavia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia/New Zealand. The commentators draw on three sets of resources: Statutes, legislative proposals, and regulatory changes that directly influence or have implications for, areas of bioethical concern; Case law and court judgments that shape, either decisively or suggestively, recent legal interpretations of particular issues of areas in bioethics; Formal statements of governmentally appointed commissions, advisory bodies, and representative professional groups, as well as less formal statements and recommendations of other organisations. In addition to providing timely summaries of recent developments, the volume offers rich and useful bibliographical references to a wide array of documents, many of which would be difficult for readers to learn about, given the lack of centralized international collection of such documents. The Yearbook will be widely consulted by all bioethicists, public policy analysts, lawyers and theologians

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

As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention is being paid to how bioethical issues are treated in different moral and religious traditions and in different regions of the world. It is often difficult, however, to obtain timely information about these matters. The Bioethics Yearbook series analyzes how such issues as new reproductive techniques, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, care of seriously ill newborns, consent, confidentiality, equitable access, cost-containment, withholding and withdrawing treatment, euthanasia, the definition of death, and organ transplantation are being discussed in different religions and regions. Volume 5 discusses theological developments from 1992 to 1994 in Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Hindu, Jehovah's Witness, Jewish, Latter-Day Saint, Lutheran, Methodist, Muslim, Pentecostal, and Presbyterian traditions

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.