a ISBN 0-88920-3253-

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number W 50

b Item number .C9504 1999

a Dewey Classification 174/.2

a Personal name Coward, Harold G.

a Title A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Waterloo, Ont. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1999.

a Extent xii, 274 p. ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a General note Includes index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction -- Buddhism, health, disease, and Thai culture -- Concepts of health and disease in traditional Chinese medicine -- Discourses on health: a critical perspective -- Expanding notions of culture for cross-cultural ethics in health and medicine -- Health, health care, and culture: diverse meanings, shared agendas -- Buddhist health care ethics -- Chinese health care ethics -- Secular health care ethics -- Pediatric care: judgments about best interests at the onset of life -- Comparing the participation of Native North American and Euro-North American patients in health care decisions -- End-of-life decisions: clinical decisions about dying and perspectives on life and death -- A critical view of North American health policy -- Threats from the Western biomedical paradigm: implications for Chinese herbology and traditional Thai medicine -- Global challenges: ethical implications of the greening of modern Western medicine.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical ethics

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical care

a Personal name Coward, Harold G.

a Personal name Phinit Rattanakun