A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics /

A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics / edited by Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul.

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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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Corporate Author: University of Victoria (B.C.). Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Other Authors: Coward, Harold G., Phinit Rattanakun
Other title:Cross-cultural dialog on health care ethics.
Format: 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.

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