Cross Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics

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ISBN: 9780867200751 | 0867200758
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1989

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Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
The Hippocratic Tradition	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation	p. 3
Declaration of Geneva	p. 21
The Florence Nightingale Pledge	p. 22
Solemn Oath of a Physician of Russia	p. 23
Modifying the Hippocratic Tradition	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
The Oath According to Hippocrates In So Far as a Christian May Swear It	p. 28
Medical Ethics; Or a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons	p. 29
Principles of Medical Ethics (1957)	p. 39
Toward an Expanded Medical Ethics: The Hippocratic Ethic Revisited	p. 41
Principles of Medical Ethics (1980)	p. 53
The Dominant Western Competitors	p. 55
Introduction	p. 55
Judaism	p. 57
The Oath of Asaph	p. 57
A Comparison of the Oaths of Hippocrates and Asaph	p. 59
The Obligation to Heal in the Judaic Tradition	p. 62
Roman catholicism	p. 77
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services	p. 77
Protestantism	p. 99
The Patient as Person	p. 99
Within Shouting Distance: Paul Ramsey and Richard McCormick on Method	p. 104
Code, Covenant, Contract, or Philanthropy	p. 116
Medical Ethics in Liberal Political Philosophy	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Liberalism: The Basic Concept	p. 137
Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State	p. 137
Respect for Persons	p. 148
Autonomy	p. 148
Autonomy	p. 148
Canterbury v. Spence	p. 156
Justice	p. 162
Justice: A Philosophical Review	p. 162
Medical Care as a Right: A Refutation	p. 179
Securing Access to Health Care	p. 187
Rights-Based Codes	p. 194
A Patient's Bill of Rights	p. 194
Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Biomedicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine	p. 197
Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities: Report to the President of the United States	p. 209
Medical Ethical Theories Outside Western Culture	p. 217
Introduction	p. 217
Eastern Europe	p. 219
The Oath of Soviet Physicians	p. 219
Toward a Bioethics in Post-Communist Russia	p. 220
Islam	p. 233
Islamic Code of Medical Professional Ethics	p. 233
India and Hinduism	p. 240
Medical Ethics in India	p. 240
Oath of Initiation	p. 258
Japan and Buddhism	p. 260
The 17 Rules of Enjuin (For Disciples in Our School)	p. 260
Buddhism, Zen, and Bioethics	p. 262
Confucianism, Traditional and Contemporary China	p. 292
Medicine--the Art of Humaneness: On Ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine	p. 292
Sun Szu-miao and the Origins of the Debate on Medical Ethics in China, From Medical Ethics in Imperial China	p. 308
Medical Ethics and Chinese Culture	p. 318
Health Ethics in Chinese Law	p. 338
Regulating Medical Ethics in China	p. 340
African and African-American Perspectives	p. 345
Introduction	p. 345
African Medical Ethics	p. 347
African Ethical Theory and the Four Principles	p. 347
African-American Medical Ethics	p. 357
Toward an African-American Perspective on Bioethics	p. 357
Index	p. 371
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