The ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health and illness, life and death, and the status of the individual suggest that a cross-cultural study of health care ethics is needed.
A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics provides this study. It shows that ethical questions can be resolved by examining the ethical principles present in each culture, critically assessing each value, and identifying common values found within all traditions, It encourages the development of global awareness and sensitivity to and respect for the diversity of peoples and their values and will advance understanding as well as help to foster a greater balance and a fuller truth in consideration of the human condition and what makes for health and wholeness.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 174/.2
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780889208551 0889203253
- LCCN
- R724
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- C76 1999eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 274 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326953 (OCoLC)180704524 (CaOOCEL)402622
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Preface 12
- 1. Introduction 14
- Part I: Culture, Health, and Illness 26
- Part I, Introduction 28
- 2. Buddhism, Health, Disease, and Thai Culture 30
- 3. Concepts of Health and Disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine 47
- 4. Discourses on Health: A Critical Perspective 60
- 5. Expanding Notions of Culture for Cross-Cultural Ethics in Health and Medicine 81
- 6. Health, Health Care, and Culture: Diverse Meanings, Shared Agendas 105
- Part I, Conclusion 126
- Part II: Culture and Health Care Ethics 128
- Part II, Introduction 130
- 7. Buddhist Health Care Ethics 132
- 8. Chinese Health Care Ethics 141
- 9. Secular Health Care Ethics 152
- Part II, Conclusion 159
- Part III: Ethical Issues in the Delivery of Health Care Services 168
- Part III, Introduction 170
- 10. Pediatric Care: Judgments about Best Interests at the Onset of Life 173
- 11. Comparing the Participation of Native North American and Euro-North American Patients in Health Care Decisions 189
- 12. End-of-Life Decisions: Clinical Decisions About Dying and Perspectives on Life and Death 203
- Part III, Conclusion 220
- Part IV: Health Policy: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue 224
- Part IV, Introduction 226
- 13. A Critical View of North American Health Policy 228
- 14. Threats from the Western Biomedical Paradigm: Implications for Chinese Herbology and Traditional Thai Medicine 239
- 15. Global Challenges: Ethical Implications of the Greening of Modern Western Medicine 249
- Part IV, Conclusion 270
- 16. Conclusion 276
- About the Authors 278
- Subject Index 284
- A 284
- B 284
- C 284
- D 285
- E 285
- F 285
- G 285
- H 285
- I 286
- J 286
- K 286
- L 286
- M 286
- N 286
- P 286
- R 287
- S 287
- T 287
- U 287
- V 287
- W 287
