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Japanese and Western Bioethics

Studies in Moral Diversity

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Kazumasa Hoshino

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

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 54)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  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

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Kazumasa Hoshino

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