Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality

Dedication; H.T. Engelhardt Jr., L.M. Rasmussen.
Part I: Physician Virtue and National Traditions. The Physician: Professional or Entrepreneur; R.M. Veatch. The Physician-Patient Relationship and Individualization of Treatment: From the View of Traditional Chinese Medical Practice; T. Wang.
Part II: Medical Technologies and National Bioethics. Medical Technologies and Universal Ethics in Transcultural Perspective; H.-M. Sass. Brain Death, Pregnancy and Cultural Reluctance toward Scientific Rationalism; K. Bayertz, K.W. Schmidt. Bioethics in Italy up to 2002: An Overview; M. Mori. Development and Identity of Swiss Bioethics; F. Jotterand.
Part III: Death, Culture, and Moral Difference. Death with Dignity: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the United States and Japan; M.D. Fetters, M. Danis. Euthanasia, Individual Choice and the Family: A Hong Kong Perspective; Ho-Mun Chan. Dissensus in the Face of a Passion for Consensus: How the Japanese and the Germans Could Still Understand One Another; C. Delkeskamp-Hayes.
Part IV: Global Bioethics and its Critics. Moral Diversity and Bioethics Consultation; L.M. Rasmussen. The Challenge of Doing International Bioethics; D.C. Thomasma. Taking Moral Diversity Seriously: A Discussion of the Foundations of Global Bioethics; J. Chan. Coveting an International Bioethics: Universal Aspirations and False Promises; M.J. Cherry. Reconstructionist Confucianism and Bioethics: A Note on Moral Difference; Ruiping Fan.
Notes on Contributors. Index.