Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights write by Joseph Tham. This book was released on 2017-09-06. Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with the thorny issue of human rights in different cultures and religions, especially in the light of bioethical issues. In this book, experts from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism and Confucianism discuss the tension between their religious traditions and the claim of universality of human rights. The East-West contrast is particularly evident with regards to human rights. Some writers find the human rights language too individualistic and it is foreign to major religions where the self does not exist in isolation, but is normally immersed in a web of relations and duties towards family, friends, religion community, and society. Is the human rights discourse a predominantly Western liberal ideal, which in bioethics is translated to mean autonomy and free choice? In today’s democratic societies, laws have been drafted to protect individuals and communities against slavery, discrimination, torture or genocide. Yet, it appears unclear at what moment universal rights supersede respect for cultural diversity and pluralism. This collection of articles demonstrates a rich spectrum of positions among different religions, as they confront the ever more pressing issues of bioethics and human rights in the modern world. This book is intended for those interested in the contemporary debates on religious ethics, human rights, bioethics, cultural diversity and multiculturalism.
Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics
Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics write by Joseph Tham. This book was released on 2014-07-07. Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great number of the world’s population is affiliated with some religious traditions. While there is diversity within each of these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism—who were gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective traditions.
Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health
Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health write by Joseph Tham. This book was released on 2018-04-26. Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discuss the meaning and implications of the social and ethical implications of the notion of social responsibility in healthcare in six major world religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism. This collection of papers is based on a four-day workshop where bioethics experts from various religious traditions gathered. They discussed the ways in which their respective traditions could, or could not, uphold the tenets of Article 14 of UNESCO's Universal Declaration of bioethics and Human Rights. The different papers presented in this book are based on this interchange of ideas at the workshop. The book explores the potential points of convergence among the various perspectives presented, as well as a discussion on the ways in which their moral differences may be managed. The managing of these moral differences through international socio-ethical mechanisms, contributes significantly to the UNESCO Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights’ goal of simultaneously respecting religio-cultural pluralism while upholding a commitment to human rights.
Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction
Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction write by Joseph Tham. This book was released on 2022-01-03. Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book includes a number of distinct religious and secular views on the anthropological, ethical and social challenges of reproductive technologies in the light of human rights and in the context of global bioethics. It includes contributions of bioethics experts from six major religions—Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism—as well as secular authors. The chapters include commentaries discussing the content cross-religious/secular tradition to give a comparative perspective. Not only the volume editors but also the contributing authors took part in reviewing each others’ chapter making this a unique collected volume, not common in interreligious dialogue today. This text appeals to researchers and students working in the fields of bioethics and religious/secular studies.
Religious Perspectives on Bioethics
Religious Perspectives on Bioethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Perspectives on Bioethics write by Mark Cherry. This book was released on 2013-12-02. Religious Perspectives on Bioethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2004. Religious Perspectives in Bioethics surveys recent bioethics discussion in thirteen religious traditions. Christian contributions include chapters on Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, the Episcopal, German Protestant, and Baptist traditions, Reformed Christianity, and the Latter Day Saints. The volume also includes chapters on Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Daoism.
