Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights

PART I: Theoretical Discussions.- 1. Respect for Cultural Diversity and Pluralism (Henk Ten Have).- 2 Cultural Diversity in UNESCO Bioethics (John Lunstroth).- 3 Human Rights and the Relational Self: A Personalist Approach (Denis Chang).- 4 Convergence of Human Rights and Duties: Towards a Global Bioethics (Alberto Garcia, John Lunstroth, Dominique J. Monlezun, Claudia R. Sotomayor).- PART II: Asian Religions-Buddhism.- 5 On Human Rights and Freedom in Bioethics: A Philosophical Inquiry in Light of Buddhism (Ellen Y. Zhang).- 6 A Response to Ellen Zhang's "On Human Rights and Freedom in Biomedical Ethics: A Philosophical Inquiry in Light of Buddhism" (Soraj Hongladarom).- 7 A Response to Ellen Zhang's "On Human Rights and Freedom in Biomedical Ethics: A Philosophical Inquiry in Light of Buddhism" (Colleen M. Gallagher).- PART III: Asian Religions-Confucianism.- 8 Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: A Confucian Critique (Jonathan Chan).- 9 Developing Confucian Virtue-based Rights: A Response to Jonathan Chan's Confucian Critique of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (Ruiping Fan and Wenqing Zhao).- 10 Response to Jonathan Chan, Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: A Confucian critique (Alex Yeung).- PART IV: Asian Religions-Daoism.- 11 Daoism and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and Bioethics (Bede Benjamin Bidlack).- 12 Daoism and Human Rights: Integrating the Incommensurable (David A. Palmer).- 13 Daoism, Human Rights, and Bioethics (Roland Chia).- PART V: Asian Religions-Hinduism.- 14 Duties and Rights in Hinduism: Before and After India's Independence (Prakash N. Desai).- 15 UNESCO on Cultural Diversity, Bioethics, and Hinduism (John Lunstroth).- 16 Hinduism and Human Rights (Martha Tarasco).- PART VI: Monotheistic Religions-Christianity & Catholicism.- 17 The Christian-Catholic religious perspective: Human rights, cultural pluralism and bioethics (Laura Palazzani).- 18 The Dialectical Relationship between Human Rights and the Christian Faith: A Response to Prof. Laura Palazzani (Kai Man Kwan).- 19 An Islamic perspective on "The Christian-Catholic religious perspective: Human rights, cultural pluralism, and bioethics" (Aasim I. Padela).- PART VII: Monotheistic Religions-Islam.- 20 Bioethics from Islamic Perspective (Dariusch Atighetchi).- 21 Discussion of Prof. Dariusch Atighetchi's paper: General Considerations about Islamic and Universal Bioethics (Nouzha Guessous).- 22 Response to Darius Atighetchi's paper on the Islamic Position (Gonzalo Miranda).- PART VIII: Monotheistic Religions-Judaism.- 23 Between Humaneness and Human Rights - A Jewish Perspective on Modern Bioethics (David Heyd).- 24 Response to Professor David Heyd's Paper entitled "Between Humaneness and Human Rights, A Jewish Perspective on Modern Bioethics" (Jonathan and Adina Halevy).- 25 Response to the Paper, "Between Humaneness and Human Rights" (Hans Ucko).- 26 Lessons Learned (Joseph Tham).