Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics. The Example of Human Cloning. ROETZ, Heiner (Ed.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2006, XX, 469 pp. Hb: 978-90-420-1609-5 / 90-420-1609-4 € 98 / US$ 132 Textbook: 978-90-420-1619-4 / 90-420-1619-1 € 40 / US$ 54 (Minimum order 10 copies)

Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 27 Human cloning is a main focus of current bioethical discussion. Involving the self-understanding of the human species, it has become one of the most debated topics in biomedical ethics, not only on the national, but also on the international level. This book brings together articles by bioethicists from several countries who address questions of human cloning within the context of different cultural, religious and regional settings against the background of globalizing biotechnology. It explores on a cross-cultural level the problems and opportunities of global bioethics. Contents Heiner ROETZ: Introduction Masahiro MORIOKA: The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Sprouts of Human Life Robert HORRES, Hans Dieter ÖLSCHLEGER, Christian STEINECK: Cloning in Japan: Public Opinion, Expert Counselling, and Bioethical Reasoning Qiu RENZONG: Cloning Issues in China Ole DÖRING: Culture and Bioethics in the Debate on the Ethics of Human Cloning in China Gerhold BECKER: Chinese Ethics and Human Cloning: A View from Hong Kong Chin KYO-HUN: Current Debates on ‘Human Cloning’ in Korea Marion EGGERT, Phillan JOUNG: The Cloning Debate in South Korea Jens SCHLIETER: Some Observations on Buddhist Thoughts on Human Cloning Pinit RATANAKUL: Human Cloning: Thai Buddhist Perspectives Siti Nurani MOHD NOR: The Ethics of Human Cloning. With Reference to the Malaysian Bioethical Discourse Heinz Werner WESSLER: The Charm of Biotechnology: Human Cloning and Hindu Bioethics in Perspective Abdulaziz SACHEDINA: Cultural and Religious in Islamic Biomedicine: The Case of Human Cloning Thomas EICH: The Debate about Human Cloning Among Muslim Religious Scholars since 1997 Y. Michael BARILAN: The Debate on Human Cloning: Some Contributions from the Jewish Tradition Christofer FREY: Bioethics in the Perspective of Universalization Nigel M. de S. CAMERON: The American Debate on Human Cloning Thomas Sören HOFFMANN: Primordial Ownership versus Dispossession of the Body. A Contribution to the Problem of Cloning from the Perspective of Classical European Philosophy of Law Ilhan ILKILIC: Human Cloning as a Challenge to Traditional Health Care Cultures Hans-Martin SASS: Let Probands and Patients Decide About Moral Risk in Stem Cell Research and Medical Treatment Florian BRAUNE, Nikola BILLER-ANDORNO, Claudia WIESEMANN: Human Reproductive Cloning: A Test Case for Individual Rights? Nikola BILLER-ANDORNO: Epilogue: Cross-Cultural Discourse in Bioethics: It's a Small World After All Notes on Contributors Heiner Roetz is professor for Chinese History and Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum /Germany. He is the speaker of the research group "Culture-Transcending Bioethics" funded by the German Research Foundation.