Bioethics and moral content : national traditions of health care morality : papers dedicated in tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino / edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Lisa M. Rasmussen.

Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic, [2002], ©2002.

vi, 297 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. The physician: professional or entrepreneur -- Ch. 2. The physician-patient relationship and individualization of treatment from the view of traditional Chinese medical practice -- Ch. 3. Medical technologies and universal ethics in transcultural perspective -- Ch. 4. Brain death, pregnancy and cultural reluctance toward scientific rationalism -- Ch. 5. Bioethics in Italy up to 2002: an overview -- Ch. 6. Development and identity of Swiss bioethics -- Ch. 7. Death with dignity: cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the United States and Japan -- Ch. 8. Euthanasia, individual choice and the family: a Hong Kong perspective -- Ch. 9. Dissensus in the face of a passion for consensus: how the Japanese and the Germans could still understand one another -- Ch. 10. Moral diversity and bioethics consultation -- Ch. 11. The challenge of doing international bioethics -- Ch. 12. Taking moral diversity seriously: a discussion of the foundations of global bioethics -- Ch. 13. Coveting an international bioethics: universal aspirations and false promises -- Ch. 14. Reconstructionist Confucianism and bioethics: a note on moral difference.