A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics

A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics /

"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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Corporate Author: University of Victoria (B.C.). Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Other Authors: Coward, Harold G., Phinit Rattanakun
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Centre for Studies in Religion & Society by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999
Subjects:
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
decision making.
health.
ecology.
freedom.
minorities.
religion (discipline)
risk assessment.
disease.
illness.
Canada
China
Thailand
Electronic books.
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