Cross-cultural issues in bioethics : the example of human cloning

Cross-cultural issues in bioethics : the example of human cloning / edited by Heiner Roetz.

Human cloning is a main focus of current bioethical discussion. Involving the self-understanding of the human species, it has become one of the most debated topics in biomedical ethics, not only on the national, but also on the international level. This book brings together articles by bioethicists...

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Other Authors: Roetz, Heiner, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 27.
Subjects:
Human cloning.
Cross-cultural studies.
Moral and Ethical Aspects.
Bioethics.
SCIENCE > Biotechnology.
Bioethics
Cross-cultural studies
Human cloning
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Sprouts of Human Life; Cloning in Japan: Public Opinion, Expert Counselling, and Bioethical Reasoning; Cloning Issues in China; Culture and Bioethics in the Debate on the Ethics of Human Cloning in China; Chinese Ethics and Human Cloning: A View from Hong Kong; Current Debates on 'Human Cloning' in Korea; The Cloning Debate in South Korea; Some Observations on Buddhist Thoughts on Human Cloning; Human Cloning: Thai Buddhist Perspectives; The Ethics of Human Cloning. With Reference to the Malaysian Bioethical Discourse.
  • The Charm of Biotechnology: Human Cloning and Hindu Bioethics in PerspectiveCultural and Religious in Islamic Biomedicine: The Case of Human Cloning; The Debate about Human Cloning Among Muslim Religious Scholars since 1997; The Debate on Human Cloning: Some Contributions from the Jewish Tradition; Bioethics in the Perspective of Universalization; The American Debate on Human Cloning; Primordial Ownership versus Dispossession of the Body. A Contribution to the Problem of Cloning from the Perspective of Classical European Philosophy of Law.
  • Human Cloning as a Challenge to Traditional Health Care CulturesLet Probands and Patients Decide About Moral Risk in Stem Cell Research and Medical Treatment; Human Reproductive Cloning: A Test Case for Individual Rights?; Epilogue: Cross-Cultural Discourse in Bioethics: It's a Small World After All; Notes on Contributors.

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