S. Cromwell Crawford breaks new ground in this provocative study of Hindu bioethics in a Western setting. He provides a new moral and philosophical perspective on fascinating and controversial bioethical issues that are routinely in the news: cloning, genetic engineering, the human genome project, reproductive technologies, the end of life, and many more. This Hindu perspective is particularly noteworthy because of India’s own indigenous medical system, which is stronger than ever and drawing continued interest from the West. The Hindu bioethics presented in this book are philosophically pluralistic and ethically contextual, giving them that conceptual flexibility which is often missing in Western religions, but which is demanded by the twenty-first century’s complex moral problems. Comprehensive in scope and passionate in nature, Crawford’s study is an important resource for analyses of practical ethics, bioethics, and health care.
Author(s): S. Cromwell Crawford
Series: SUNY Series in Religious Study
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 237
Cover......Page 1
Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS......Page 20
1. Hindu Ethics......Page 22
2. Indian Medicine......Page 42
3. A Hindu Bioethical Analysis of Health/Disease and Physician/Patient Relationships in American Society......Page 104
PART TWO: ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF LIFE......Page 124
4. Technology and the Womb......Page 126
5. Dilemmas at Birth......Page 136
6. When Parents Let Children Suffer for Reasons of Faith......Page 142
7. The Ethics of Contraception......Page 149
8. The Ethics of Prenatal Diagnosis for Sex Selection......Page 153
9. The Ethics of the Human Genome Project......Page 157
10. The Ethics of Genetic Engineering......Page 161
11. The Ethics of Cloning......Page 170
12. The Ethics of Population Growth......Page 178
13. The Ethics of Aging: Maximizing the Quality of Later Life......Page 187
14. The Ethics of Death and Dying......Page 199
1. HINDU ETHICS......Page 210
2. INDIAN MEDICINE......Page 212
3. HINDU BIOETHICAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH/DISEASE AND PHYSICIAN/PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY......Page 216
4. TECHNOLOGY AND THE WOMB......Page 217
7. THE ETHICS OF CONTRACEPTION......Page 218
10. THE ETHICS OF GENETIC ENGINEERING......Page 219
12. THE ETHICS OF POPULATION GROWTH......Page 220
13. THE ETHICS OF AGING: MAXIMIZING THE QUALITY OF LATER LIFE......Page 221
14. THE ETHICS OF DEATH AND DYING......Page 222
GLOSSARY......Page 224
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 228
C......Page 234
K......Page 235
R......Page 236
Z......Page 237
