Table of Contents

Bioethics in the Plural: An Introduction to taking Global Moral Diversity Seriously.- I / Physician Virtue and National Traditions.- The Physician: Professional or Entrepreneur.- The Physician-Patient Relationship and Individualization of Treatment from the View of Traditional Chinese Medical Practice.- II / Medical Technologies and National Bioethics.- Medical Technologies and Universal Ethics in Transcultural Perspective.- Brain Death, Pregnancy and Cultural Reluctance toward Scientific Rationalism.- Bioethics in Italy up to 2002: An Overview.- Development and Identity of Swiss Bioethics.- III / Death, Culture, and Moral Difference.- Death with Dignity: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the United States and Japan.- Euthanasia, Individual Choice and the Family: A Hong Kong Perspective.- Dissensus in the Face of a Passion for Consensus: How the Japanese and the Germans Could Still Understand One Another.- IV / Global Bioethics and Its Critics.- Moral Diversity and Bioethics Consultation.- The Challenge of Doing International Bioethics.- Taking Moral Diversity Seriously: A Discussion of the Foundations of Global Bioethics.- Coveting an International Bioethics: Universal Aspirations and False Promises.- Reconstructionist Confucianism and Bioethics: A Note on Moral Difference.- Notes on Contributors.