Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics - Softcover

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Preface; Alberto Garcia.- Introduction:  The principle of vulnerability: meeting ground of six religions; Joseph Tham.- Part I: General considerations on the principle of vulnerability in bioethics.- Vulnerability: How did the principle come about?; Gonzalo Miranda.- The principle of vulnerability in the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights; Henk ten Have.- Vulnerability: Considerations on the Appropriate use of the Term in Bioethics; Martha Tarasco Michel.- Part II: Religious perspectives of vulnerability from philosophical, ethical and legal points of view.- Vulnerability, Compassion, and Ethical Responsibility: A Buddhist Perspective on the Phenomenology of Illness and Health; Ellen Y. Zhang.- The Ethical and the Legal Aspects of Vulnerability in the Christian Perspective; Stamatios Tzitzis.- Family as First Bulwark for the Vulnerable:  Confucian Perspectives on the Anthropology and Ethics of Human Vulnerability; Ping Chueng Lo.- Between Tradition and Modernity:  Bioethics, Vulnerabilities and Social Change in Hinduism; Prakash Desai.- Human Vulnerability in Islam; Mustafa Abu Sway.- Reflections on human vulnerability and the rabbinic perspective on medical ethics; Yechiel Michael Barilan.- Part III: Reponses to vulnerable groups from six religions.- Buddhist perspective; Soraj Hongladarom.- Christian perspective; Hans Ucko, Colleen M Gallagher.- Confucian perspective; Jonathan Keung Lap Chan.- Hindu perspective; Vasantha Muthuswamy.- Islamic perspective; Dariusch Atighetchi.- Jewish perspective; Adina Halevy, Jonathan Halevy, David Heyd.-Conclusion; Lessons Learned, Joseph Tham.- About the contributors.- Appendices.       

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