Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century

Contents

Crawford: Hindu Bioethics page vii contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS Chapter 1 Hindu Ethics 11 Chapter 2 Indian Medicine 31 Chapter 3 A Hindu Bioethical Analysis of Health/Disease and Physician/Patient Relationships in American Society 93 PART TWO: ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF LIFE Chapter 4 Technology and the Womb 115 Chapter 5 Dilemmas at Birth 125 Chapter 6 When Parents Let Children Suffer for Reasons of Faith 131 Chapter 7 The Ethics of Contraception 138 Chapter 8 The Ethics of Prenatal Diagnosis for Sex Selection 142 Chapter 9 The Ethics of the Human Genome Project 146 Chapter 10 The Ethics of Genetic Engineering 150 Chapter 11 The Ethics of Cloning 159 Chapter 12 The Ethics of Population Growth 167 Chapter 13 The Ethics of Aging: Maximizing the Quality of Later Life 176 Chapter 14 The Ethics of Death and Dying 188 Notes 199 Glossary 213 Bibliography 217 Index 223 Crawford: Hindu Bioethics page viii viii Contents ...