A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics / / edited by Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resorce (xii, 274 pages)
• Disciplina: 174/.2
• Soggetto topico: Medical ethics; Medical care
• Altri autori: CowardHarold G Phinit Rattanakun
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Culture, Health, and Illness -- Introduction -- Buddhism, Health, Disease, and Thai Culture -- Concepts of Health and Disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine -- Discourses on Health: A Critical Perspective -- Expanding Notions of Culture for Cross-Cultural Ethics in Health and Medicine -- Health, Health Care, and Culture: Diverse Meanings, Shared Agendas -- Conclusion -- Culture and Health Care Ethics -- Introduction -- Buddhist Health Care Ethics -- Chinese Health Care Ethics -- Secular Health Care Ethics -- Conclusion -- Ethical Issues in the Delivery of Health Care Services -- Introduction -- Pediatric Care: Judgments about Best Interests at the Onset of Life -- Comparing the Participation of Native North American and Euro-North American Patients in Health Care Decisions -- End-of-Life Decisions: Clinical Decisions about Dying and Perspectives on Life and Death -- Conclusion -- Health Policy: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue -- Introduction -- A Critical View of North American Health Policy -- Threats from the Western Biomedical Paradigm: Implications for Chinese Herbology and Traditional Thai Medicine -- Global Challenges: Ethical Implications of the Greening of Modern Western Medicine -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- About the Authors -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics
• ISBN: 1-280-92516-7; 9786610925162; 0-88920-855-7; 0-585-32290-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827257803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II