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Bioethics Across the Globe Rebirthing Bioethics

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-981-15-3572-7

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This 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 and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides where it stands on these issues. In the last chapter, the author proposes discarding the overarching term ‘Global Bioethics’ in favor of the new term, ‘Bioethics Across the Globe (BAG)’, which carries a more universal connotation.


Subject: Medicine, Theory of Medicine, Bioethics, Bioethics, Brain death, Informed Consent, Advance Directives, Regenerative medicine, Research Regulation