A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics

Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1999

A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics

Edited by: Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul

https://doi.org/10.51644/9780889208551

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Coward Harold :

Harold Coward is a professor of history and director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria.

Ratanakul Pinit :

Pinit Ratanakul is director of the Centre of Religious Studies at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. He has written extensively on bioethics and Buddhism.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Culture, Health, and Illness
Introduction Michael McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Buddhism, Health, Disease, and Thai Culture Pinit Ratanakul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Concepts of Health and Disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine Edwin Hui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Discourses on Health: A Critical Perspective Joan Anderson and Sheryl Reimer Kirkham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Expanding Notions of Culture for Cross-Cultural Ethics in Health and Medicine Peter Stephenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Health, Health Care, and Culture: Diverse Meanings, Shared Agendas Michael McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Conclusion Harold Coward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Culture and Health Care Ethics
Introduction Barry Hoffmaster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Buddhist Health Care Ethics Pinit Ratanakul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chinese Health Care Ethics Edwin Hui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Secular Health Care Ethics Barry Hoffmaster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Conclusion Barry Hoffmaster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Ethical Issues in the Delivery of Health Care Services
Introduction Michael Burgess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Pediatric Care: Judgments about Best Interests at the Onset of Life Michael Burgess, Patricia Rodney, Harold Coward, Pinit Ratanakul and Khannika Suwonnakote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Comparing the Participation of Native North American and Euro-North American Patients in Health Care Decisions Edward Keyserlingk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
End-of-Life Decisions: Clinical Decisions about Dying and Perspectives on Life and Death Michael Burgess, Peter Stephenson, Pinit Ratanakul and Khannika Suwonnakote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Conclusion Michael Burgess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Health Policy: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Introduction Patricia Rodney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
A Critical View of North American Health Policy Arthur Slue, Edward Keyserlingk, Patricia Rodney and Rosalie Starzomski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Threats from the Western Biomedical Paradigm: Implications for Chinese Herbology and Traditional Thai Medicine Edwin Hui, Sumana Tangkanasingh and Harold Coward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Global Challenges: Ethical Implications of the Greening of Modern Western Medicine Barry Glickman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Conclusion Joan Anderson and Patricia Rodney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Conclusion Robert Florida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

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Language: English
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Ethnography; Philosophy: Ethics

eBook

Published: January 1, 2006
ISBN: 9780889208551