Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Buddhist health care ethics
  • Chinese health care ethics
  • Secular health care ethics
  • 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
  • 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.