Connecting the East and the West, the Local and the Universal: The Methodological Elements of a Transcultural Approach to Bioethics

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Connecting the East and the West, the Local and the Universal: The Methodological Elements of a Transcultural Approach to Bioethics

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From the outset, cross-cultural and transglobal bioethics has constituted a potent arena for a dynamic public discourse and academic debate alike. But prominent bioethical debates on such issues as the notion of common morality and a distinctive "Asian" bioethics in contrast to a "Western" one reveal some deeply rooted and still popular but seriously problematic methodological habits in approaching cultural differences, most notably, radically dichotomizing the East and the West, the local an...

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Article

Date created

2016-09-01

Creator

Nie, Jing-Bao / Fitzgerald, Ruth P.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/29291

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Arts & Humanities / Ethics / Philosophy / Social Issues / Social Sciences / Social Sciences - Other Topics

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