Japanese and Western Bioethics

Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in Moral Diversity.- I Ethical Universality and Cultural Particularity.- Bioethics in the Light of Japanese Sentiments.- Comparative Studies: Japan and America.- Nursing Perspectives in Bioethics.- The Characteristics of Japanese Concepts and Attitudes with Regard to Human Remains.- II Traditions, Authorities and Ambiguities.- Technology, Authority and the Loss of Tradition: The Roots of American Bioethics in Comparison with Japanese Bioethics.- Sanctity of Life: A Study in Ambiguity and Confusion.- Quality of Life Decisions and the Hopelessly Ill Patient: The Physician as Moral Agent and Truth Teller.- III Death, Life, and Well-Being.- Autonomy and Communitarianism: The Ethics of Terminal Care in Cross-Cultural Perspective.- A Thought on Terminal Care in Japan.- Medical Futility: Philosophical Reflections on Death.- Facing Death the Japanese Way — Customs and Ethos.- Ethos and its Changes: A Commentary on Facing Death the Japanese Way — Customs and Ethos.- The Concept of Happiness in Oriental Thought and its Significance in Clinical Medicine.- IV The Human Genome: Taboos and Moral Intuitions.- The Normative Status of the Human Genome: A European Perspective.- Moral Puzzles Concerning the Human Genome: Western Taboos, Intuitions, and Beliefs at the End of the Christian Era.- V Cross Cultural Diversity and Post-Traditional Morality.- Three Levels of Problems in Cross-Cultural Explorations of Bioethics: A Methodological Approach.- Moral Strangers: A Humanity that Does Not Bind.- Notes on Contributors.