Bioethics across the globe : : rebirthing bioethics / / Akira Akabayashi.
This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : Springer Singapore :, Imprint: Springer,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st edition 2020. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 146 p. 22 illus., 12 illus. in color.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Brief History of Bioethics in Japan
- Chapter 2 Brain-death and organ transplantation: The first Japanese Path
- Chapter 3 Informed Consent, Familism, and the Nature of Autonomy
- Chapter 4 End-of-Life Care, Advance Directives, Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and The Goals of Medicine
- Chapter 5 The Moral Status of the Embryo: The Second Japanese Path
- Chapter 6 The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
- Chapter 7 Outcome egalitarianism and opportunity egalitarianism
- Chapter 8 Research Regulations, Ethics Committees, and Confronting Global Standards
- Chapter 9 Modern Medical Professionalism
- Chapter 10 What does it mean to be truly “interdisciplinary”?
- Chapter 11 Rebirthing Bioethics: Going Global.