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Is Asian Bioethics Really the Solution?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2008

AKIRA AKABAYASHI ,
SATOSHI KODAMA  and
BRIAN TAYLOR SLINGSBY
AKIRA AKABAYASHI
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Ethics at the School of Health Science and Nursing, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and University of Tokyo.
SATOSHI KODAMA
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Ethics at the School of Health Science and Nursing, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
BRIAN TAYLOR SLINGSBY
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Today Asia is attracting attention in the area of bioethics. In fact, the potential of bioethics is beginning to be discussed seriously at academic centers across Asia. In Japan, this discussion began a decade ago with the publication “Japanese and Western Bioethics.” The book is one of the principal explorations of biomedical ethics involving Japan to date. Tom Beauchamp, an author of one of the book's chapters, compares Japanese and American standards of informed consent and refutes relativistic positions, concluding that:

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Special Section: International Voices 2008
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 270 - 272
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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