A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics /
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Published for the Centre for Studies in Religion & Society by Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©1999.
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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.