The Family, Medical Decision-Making, and Biotechnology: Critical Reflections on Asian Moral Perspectives

- Preface Shui Chuen Lee

I. A View from Asia: An Introduction

- Shui Chuen Lee, Justin Ho Medicine and the Biomedical Technologies in the Context of Asian Perspectives

II. The Family and its Impact on Bioethics and Personhood

- Ruiping Fan Confucian Familism and its Implications for Bioethics

- H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. The Family in Transition and in Authority: The Impact of Biotechnology

- Stephen Erickson Family Life, Bioethics, and Confucianism

III. Medical Decision-Making and Traditional Conception of the Family

- Shuh-Jen Sheu A Truth-Telling Guideline: The Choice Between Patient Family Autonomy

- Stephen Wear Truth-Telling to the Sick and Dying in Traditional Chinese Culture: A Reappraisal

- Shui Chuen Lee On Relational Autonomy: From Feminist Critique to a Confucian Model for Clinical Practice

- Leonardo D. de Castro Reproductive Technology and Post-traditional Family

IV. Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Confucian, Islamic, and Western Perspectives

- Ruiping Fan The Ethics of Experimenting with Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and the Interests of the Family

- Shui Chuen Lee A Confucian Evaluation of Embryonic Stem Cell Experimentation: An Analysis of the Moral Status of Human Embryos

- Wen-May Rei Reproductive Choices in a Patriarchal, Legal, and Social Institution: Sex Selection in Taiwan

- Wong Hon Chung Regulations for Human Embryonic Stem Research in East Asian

- Countries: A Confucian Critique

- Sahin Aksoy, Anwar Nasim An Islamic Approach to Stem Cell Experimentation

- H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Why Western Culture, Unlike Confucian Culture, is so Concerned about Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Christian Roots of the Difference

V. Taking the Family Seriously: Confucian Approaches to Health Care Financing

- Kris Teo Confucian Health Care System in Singapore: A Family-oriented Approach to Financial Sustainability

- Erika Yu Respect for the Elderly and Family Responsibility: A

From the reviews:"The most recent achievements of ... search for an Asian bioethics as an intellectual endeavour. Very informative and thought-provoking, they are the results of many years' labour and offer important contributions to bioethics in Asia and the world. ... Growing out from two international conferences in Taiwan organised by the editor, it constitutes Volume 91 of the well-established book series 'Philosophy and Medicine' ... . have significantly contributed in filling up a huge intellectual gap in international as well as Asian bioethics." (Asian Bioethics Review, December, 2008)