Transcultural Dimensions in Medical Ethics
Edited by Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Patricia Mazzarella, PhD, and Pietro Corsi, DPhil
Pellegrino and co-editors have cogently defined the philosophical problem for so-called Western concepts in a multicultural world: ". . . may be strongly at odds with worldviews held by billions of other humans. . . ."
This work is diverse . . . and useful as a window into those worldviews. This work is valuable for its descriptive content and because it is largely nonprescriptive. Advanced undergraduate through professional.
-- Choice, The American Library Association
In a multicultural dialogue, the contributors examine issues and core values in medical ethics from Western European, American, Eastern European, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic perspectives, challenging readers to question and re-examine their intellectual and cultural presupposition and perspectives in medical ethics.
The 15 papers collected in Transcultural Dimensions in
Medical Ethics illustrate how a multicultural dialogue can illuminate the fundamental issues in biomedicine that now challenge a global society.
$35.00, Softcover, 1992, 229 pages
ISBN 1-55572-106-0
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