The Specious Idea of an Asian Bioethics: Beyond Dichotomizing East and West

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 143-149

  Nie, Jing Bao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Asian bioethics beyond dichotomizing east and west; Asian bioethics approach communitarian East and individualistic West presupposition; Asian societies opposition to imperialism and Western domination; Developing genuine Asian bioethics; Health care ethic diversity in Asian societies

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649007453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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