Bioethics cannot be thought of as a primarily North American and WesternEuropean academic discipline. Bioethics has become a truly internationalphenomenon movin... » 

Bioethics cannot be thought of as a primarily North American and WesternEuropean academic discipline. Bioethics has become a truly internationalphenomenon moving beyond academic discussions into politics social policyand law. Religious Perspectives in Bioethics illustrates the diverse and wideranging moral intuitions premises evaluations and commitments of many of theworlds religions. As such it explores documents and critically assesses themoral and cultural assumptions central beliefs and values epistemological andmetaphysical understandings that underlie the bioethics of a wide rangereligions from Buddhism Daoism Hinduism and Sikhism to Islam and Judaismto the various Christian religions including Eastern Orthodox Roman CatholicLutheran Episcopal Southern Baptist and Reformed Protestant. ReligiousPerspectives in Bioethics portrays the often widely divergent bioethicalperspectives reflected throughout the international communitys religions andcultures. Here one appreciates the significant plurality of fundamentallydifferent incompatible and often mutually antagonistic moral visions andmoral rationalities within which complex bioethical issues are addressed.Religious Perspectives in Bioethics is the second of three foundationalvolumes including Regional Perspectives in Bioethics and Legal Perspectives inBioethics which serve as precursors to the Annals of Bioethics Serial. «