Cross-cultural issues in bioethics [[electronic resource] ] : the example of human cloning / / edited by Heiner Roetz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777646103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2006
• ISBN: 94-012-0115-3; 1-4237-8760-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 p.)
• Collana: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; ; 27
• Classificazione: 08.38; 42.02
• Altri autori (Persone): RoetzHeiner <1950->
• Disciplina: 660.65
• Soggetti: Human cloning; Cross-cultural studies; Moral & Ethical Aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Heiner Roetz -- The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Sprouts of Human Life / Masahiro Morioka -- Cloning in Japan: Public Opinion, Expert Counselling, and Bioethical Reasoning / Robert Horres , Hans Dieter ölschleger , and Christian Steineck -- Cloning Issues in China / Qiu Renzong -- Culture and Bioethics in the Debate on the Ethics of Human Cloning in China / Ole Döring -- Chinese Ethics and Human Cloning: A View from Hong Kong / Gerhold K. Becker -- Current Debates on 'Human Cloning' in Korea / Chin Kyo-hun -- The Cloning Debate in South Korea / Phillan Joung and Marion Eggert -- Some Observations on Buddhist Thoughts on Human Cloning / Jens Schlieter -- Human Cloning: Thai Buddhist Perspectives / Pinit Ratanakul -- The Ethics of Human Cloning. With Reference to the Malaysian Bioethical Discourse -- The Charm of Biotechnology: Human Cloning and Hindu Bioethics in Perspective / Wessler Heinz Werner -- Cultural and Religious in Islamic Biomedicine: The Case of Human Cloning / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- The Debate about Human Cloning Among Muslim Religious Scholars since 1997 / Eich Thomas -- The Debate on Human Cloning: Some Contributions from the Jewish Tradition / Y. Michael Barilan -- Bioethics in the ; Perspective of Universalization / Christofer Frey -- The American Debate on Human Cloning / Nigel M de S. Cameron -- Primordial Ownership versus Dispossession of the Body. A Contribution to the Problem of Cloning from the Perspective of Classical European Philosophy of Law -- Human Cloning as a Challenge to Traditional Health Care Cultures -- Let Probands and Patients Decide About Moral Risk in Stern Cell Research and Medical Treatment -- Human Reproductive Cloning: A Test Case for Individual Rights? -- Epilogue: Cross-Cultural Discourse in Bioethics: It's a Small World After All -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Matter.
• Sommario/riassunto: Human cloning is a main focus of current bioethical discussion. Involving the self-understanding of the human species, it has become one of the most debated topics in biomedical ethics, not only on the national, but also on the international level. This book brings together articles by bioethicists from several countries who address questions of human cloning within the context of different cultural, religious and regional settings against the background of globalizing biotechnology. It explores on a cross-cultural level the problems and opportunities of global bioethics.