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BEYOND A WESTERN BIOETHICS
VOICES FROM THE DEVELOPING WORLD |
By: |
Angeles Tan Alora (Editor), Josephine M. Lumitao (Editor) |
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Hardback |

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£60.00 |
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£54.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0878408746 |
ISBN 13: |
9780878408740 |
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Publisher: |
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
20 July, 2001 |
Series: |
Clinical Medical Ethics series |
Pages: |
176 |
Description: |
Provides a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues outside of the dominant American and western European model. Using the Philippines as a case study, this title addresses how a developing country's economy, religion, and culture affect the bioethical landscape for doctors, patients, families, and the society as a whole. |
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In "Beyond a Western Bioethics", physicians Angeles Tan Alora and Josephine M. Lumitao join eight other contributors to provide a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues outside of the dominant American and western European model. Using the Philippines as a case study, they address how a developing country's economy, religion, and culture affect the bioethical landscape for doctors, patients, families, and the society as a whole. American principles of medical ethics assume the primacy of individual autonomy, the importance of truth-telling and secular standards of justice and morality. In the Philippines, these standards are often at odds with a culture in which family relationships take precedence over individualism, and ideas of community, friendship, and religion can deeply influence personal behavior. Pervasive poverty further complicates the equation.Contributors move from a general discussion of the moral vision informing health care decisions in the Philippines to an exploration of a wide range of specific cases: family planning, care of the elderly, organ transplants, death and dying, medical research, AIDS care, doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and the allocation of scarce health-care resources. Written for both students and professionals, this book provides a much-needed perspective on how medical ethics are practiced in a developing nation, and it successfully challenges the wisdom of global bioethical standards that do not account for local cultural and economic differences. |
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College Graduate Student and over |
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US |
Imprint: |
Georgetown University Press |
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