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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b11235139.
- catalog contributor b11235140.
- catalog contributor b11235141.
- catalog contributor b11235142.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 274 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0889203253 :".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Waterloo, Ont. : Published for The Centre for Studies in Religion & Society by Wilfrid Laurier University Press,".
- catalog subject "174/.2 21".
- catalog subject "1999 I-978".
- catalog subject "Cross-Cultural Comparison.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Medical.".
- catalog subject "Medical care Cross-cultural studies.".
- catalog subject "Medical ethics.".
- catalog subject "R724 .C76 1999".
- catalog subject "Religion and Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Soins medicaux Études transculturelles.".
- catalog subject "W 50 C9504 1999".
- catalog subject "Éthique medicale.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics / edited by Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul ; authors on the research team, Joan Anderson ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "Cross-cultural studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".