A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics /

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"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 s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: University of Victoria (B.C.). Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Otros Autores: Coward, Harold G., Phinit Rattanakun
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Centre for Studies in Religion & Society by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1999.
Temas:
Medical ethics.
Medical care > Cross-cultural studies.
Bioethics.
Cultural pluralism.
Decision making.
Medical care.
Health.
Social values.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Buddhism.
Cross-cultural studies.
Diseases.
Ecology.
Liberty.
Indians of North America.
Informed consent (Medical law)
International cooperation.
Minorities.
Patient participation.
Physician and patient.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Religion.
Risk assessment.
Risk.
Patient refusal of treatment.
Alternative medicine.
Therapeutics, Physiological.
Terminal care.
Hospice care.
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Cultural Diversity
Decision Making
Delivery of Health Care
Ethics, Medical
Health
Public Policy
Social Values
Truth Disclosure
Hospice Care
Adolescent
Attitude to Death
Buddhism
Complementary Therapies
Confucianism
Community Participation
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Disease
Ecology
Family Relations
Freedom
Indians, North American
Informed Consent
International Cooperation
Internationality
Minority Groups
Minors
Patient Participation
Personal Autonomy
Physician-Patient Relations
Reference Standards
Religion and Medicine
Religion
Religious Philosophies
Risk Assessment
Risk
Terminal Care
Treatment Refusal
Patient Care
Éthique médicale.
Soins médicaux > Études transculturelles.
Bioéthique.
Diversité culturelle.
Prise de décision.
Prestation de soins.
Santé.
Valeurs sociales.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Bouddhisme.
Médecines parallèles.
Études transculturelles.
Maladies.
Écologie.
Liberté.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord.
Consentement éclairé (Droit médical)
Coopération internationale.
Minorités.
Participation des patients.
Relations médecin-patient.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
Évaluation du risque.
Risque.
Soins en phase terminale.
Refus de traitement.
Soins médicaux.
decision making.
health.
ecology.
freedom.
minorities.
religion (discipline)
risk assessment.
disease.
illness.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Therapeutics, Physiological
Terminal care
Social values
Risk assessment
Physician and patient
Patient refusal of treatment
Patient participation
Minorities
Medicine > Religious aspects
Liberty
International cooperation
Indians of North America
Hospice care
Diseases
Decision making
Death > Psychological aspects
Cultural pluralism
Cross-cultural studies
Alternative medicine
Medical care
Medical ethics
Medische ethiek.
Culturele aspecten.
Canada
China
Thailand
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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