CHALLENGES FOR BIOETHICS FROM ASIA: THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH ASIAN BIOETHICS CONFERENCE

Abstract

The behaviourome project -- Moving forward with ideas / Darryl Macer -- Description of behaviourome project methods groups -- Discussion from TRT8 on the mental mapping project -- Application of behaviourome analysis to ideas about biotechnology / M. Inaba and Macer -- Behavioral foundations for the behaviourome/mind mapping project / John E. LaMuth -- Human biodiversity: what can we learn from the history of mental mapping / Frank Leavitt -- Integrative mental mapping: a cosmist approach / Konstantin S. Khroutski -- The evolution of thinking and ideas (behaviourome method 5) with special reference to the politics of reproduction / Irina Pollard -- Method to increase students' cognitive potentialities using the elementary pragmatic model / P. De Giacomo, L. Mich, M. Storelli, S. De Nigris, A. De Giacomo, C. Tarquinio, R. Masellis -- A method of counseling on line using the elementary pragmatic model / P. De Giacomo, L. Mich, M. Storelli, S. De Nigris, A. De Giacomo, C. Tarquinio, R. Masellis -- ID- cartography: how to build an idea-counter and idea-maps? / Francisco Iturra -- Integrative thinking outside and inside the box / Graham Douglas -- The potential of the behaviourome / Morgan Pollard -- How to assess people's views of the biotechnology: lessons from Japan / M. Inaba and D. Macer -- Empirical dimensions of human idea for plant genetic resources conservation and management / Dipankar Saha, H.S. Sen and A. Saha -- The behaviourome and proposal for an integrative human idea map (TRT8) / D. Macer -- Choose between co-operation and annihilation: a mental mapping project -- Towards a more generously directed altruism / Irina Pollard -- Multiple facets of the fantasies of the Asian mind / Jayapaul Azariah -- Arguments of the great philosophers that our thoughts are not in our brains / F. Leavitt -- Idea diversity and cultural borrowing / Tim Boyle - - The influence of Taoism at the end of life / Dena Hsin and Darryl Macer --Transforming ideas into policy making-thoughts, values and global governance / Minakshi Bhardwaj -- When did 'bioethics' begin in each country? A proposal of a comparative study / Masahiro Morioka -- Ideas of the Japanese mind: an outline of Japanese ethics, morals and religions / Shinryo N. Shinagawa -- Ecological feedback drives the evolution of ideas and living things, which carry them / Rick Weisburd, Wenjun Li and Ganlin Huang -- Ideas of the Chinese mind / Baoqi Su -- The human idea map: a follow-up of the human genome map? / M. Sleeboom -- The modeling of sustainable development and its relevance to a human ideas map for bioethics / Morgan Pollard -- Access to drugs, genomics and bioethics in developing countries (United Nations University (UNU) Bioethics Roundtable) -- The UNU as a forum for bioethics / Hamed Zakri -- Identifying priority areas in global bioethics / Mihaela Serbulea -- Poverty: with special attention to bioethics / Shinryo N. Shinagawa -- Public health and the WTO free trade rules-access to patented medicines in developing countries / Yang Yi-Ching -- Access to drugs and medical services in Turkey: Asian and European / Sabin Aksoy -- Dalits in India are a nation within a nation / N. Manova Santhosham -- The bioethics of rational pharmacotherapy in Russia: objective and subjective problems and their solution / Konstantin S. Khroutski and Olga A. Khroutski -- Access to medical therapy and genomics in China: ethical issues in the International HapMap project / Yanguang Wang -- Risks, risk management and remedy in ELSI: what can we learn rom the "drug relief fund" of Taiwan / Niu Huei-Chih -- Cultural diversity-biodiversity-traditional medicine linkages in India: an ecoethical impact analysis / Abhik Gupta - - Biobanks, genomics and databases: a question of attribution / Minakshi Bhardwaj -- The ethical justification of placebo trials: the continuing challenge / Alireza Bagheri -- Similarity and difference between Japan and Korea in the debate on bioethics / Lee Sung Kyu -- Euthanasia is under discussion in Korea / Park SY, Jee YH, & Choi HS -- Reflections on the rights of nature in humankind in public health decisions in developing countries / Jayapaul Azariah -- Discussion -- Medical ethics -- Regulating assisted reproductive technology and genetically modified organisms: a comparative perspective on Japan / Uwe Serdult -- The classifications of bioethics from my lecture-notes of introduction to bioethics and medical ethics in Hirosaki University School of Medicine / Shinryo N. Shinagawa -- "Medicine is the art of perfect virtue": its bright side and dark side in Japan / Noritoshi Tanida -- Analysis of informed consent in Chinese medical practice / Li Zhongli, et al. -- Informed consent documents for medical interventions in 15th to 19th century Ottoman state / M. Alpertunga Kara, Ali Haydar Bayat, Sahin Aksoy -- The issue of trust in the doctor-patient relationship in Japan / Atsushi Asai, Motoki Ohnishi, Etsuyo Nishigaki, and Tsuguya Fukui -- Problems over organ transplantation in Korea / Heo Yang Hee and Lee Hea Jin -- A community without a kidney: a tragedy? Analysis of the moral and ethical aspects of organ donation / Francis Aguilar and Lalaine Siruno -- Current status of organ transplants in Japan / Kenji Yuzawa -- Six patterns of grieving in organ-donation decision makers: narratives from 5 donor families / Keiko Yasuoka -- Extreme prematurity: facts, fiction and U.S. law / Geoffrey Miller -- The status of ethics committees in Japan / Yasuko Shirai -- National bioethics committees in Muslim countries / Nageen Ainuddin -- Whistle-blowing as a professional responsibility: Japanese nurses' reflections / Emiko Konishi and Anne J. Davis -- Information ethics as related to monitored therapy / Iwona Andrys, Jaroslaw Ast, Barbara Brokl-Stolarczyk -- The Korean "bioethics and biosafety bill" / Young-Mo Koo -- On involving a Christian College in AIDS education and mission / Joshua Kalapati -- An opinion on the Japanese view of life and death: in comparison with studies of foreign scholars on death and funerals / Gosen T. Ikeguchi, H.Y. Li and H. Ishizu -- Neglected bioethical issues in the management of human mycoses / Chandra Jeet Singh -- Discussion -- Ethics of genomics and biotechnology -- Designing life and new eugenics / Motomu Shimoda -- Eugenics, war and history: demystifying "East Asian" bioethics / Jennifer Robertson -- Embryonic stem cell research: ethical vs. scientific issues / Maria Fidelis C. Manalo - - Beyond therapy and liberal new eugenics / Osamu Kanamori -- Unblocking gene patents: an antitrust approach? / Shamnad Basheer - - Human cloning: Thai Buddhist perspectives / Pinit Ratakakul -- An attempt to mediate the conflicts between the ethic of inevitability and the ethic of inseparability / Mi Jung Koo and Jae Sub Yang -- Japanese views on biotechnology and modern science and technology / Yuko Mizugaki and Darryl Macer -- Confidentiality and duty to warn: challenges of genetics information on the physician- patient relationship in Taiwan / Shinrou Lin -- Human cloning in Islamic jurisprudence / Abbas Ali Soltani -- Human cloning: reflections on the meaning of life and morality / Xu Zongliang - - Moral disputes over the emergency morning after pill / Park Young-Hee & Lee Suk-Hee -- Cloning controversies in Korea / Park Hee-Joo -- Religions in conundrum: conflict or co-existence / R.N. Sharma -- Beyond informed consent: a complex model for genetic information regulation / Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh -- How Japanese companies face bioethics / Makina Kato and Darryl Macer - - Bioethics, industry and genome-related business / Yoshihiro Okada and Darryl Macer -- Ethical aspects of counselling in family planning services / Fatma Ersin, Fatma Gozukara, Nurten Aksoy and Sahin Aksoy -- Haeckelian legacy of popularization: vertebrate embryos and the survival of the fakest / Pauli Ojala -- Gene therapy: a scientific and bioethical challenge / Oana Iftime -- Discussion -- Environmental ethics -- Environmental ethics in Japanese companies / Fumika Niwa and Darryl Macer -- Ethics in agriculture and agricultural biotechnology / Kazuo N. Watanabe - - Production of recombinant proteins in transgenic plants: biosafety considerations / Hamideh Ofoghi -- Ecotourism under construction / Mary Ann Chen Ng -- Ecosystem processes & conservation in Nanji Island Biosphere Reserve / Rick Weisburd - - Agricultural marketing beyond liberalisation in Pakistan / Farzana Panhwar -- GM foods-related consumer protection framework in Taiwan / Peilun Teng -- In depth bioethical analysis of GM crops in India / Chandra Jeet Singh and A.K. Yadav -- Integral and differential analysis of bioethics in understanding agroenvironmental altruism / Dipankar Saha, H.S. Sen and A. Saha - - Sexuality in the context of human values / D.S. Sheriff -- Environmental challenges and perspectives: Nepal / S.P. Sharma and H.P. Pokharel -- Discussion -- Ethics of nanotechnology and information technology -- Ethics in a high energy physics project / Nicolas Delerue -- Nanotechnology: a boon to humanity if bioethics is practiced / M.A. Jothi Rajan, Arockiam Thaddeus, T. Nirmala, T.S. Vivekanandam, S. Umpathy, Yesu Thangam -- Status of information ethics and developing countries / V.R. Manoj and Jayapaul Azariah -- Discussion -- Asian bioethics and future issues -- Future of Asian biethics / Renzong Qiu -- Globalisation of bioethics: from the Asian perspective / Hyakudai Sakamoto -- Some thoughts about bioethics in Asia / Sang-yong Song -- Policy proposal to increase female scientists in Japan: proposal of gender mainstreaming approach / Asao Shimizu -- Women's ethical status in Iran / Zahra Govahi -- Trafficking in girls: the role of media in healing the bleeding wound of Nepal / Shubha Shankar Kandel -- The 10th year of the Turkish Bioethics Association and its significance for bioethics in Turkey / Funda G. Kadioglu, Selim Kadioglu and Sahin Aksoy -- Ethical approach to public health in China / Xiao Wei -- Hypothetical political framework for bioethical governance in Japan / Yasushi Makiyama -- Future of bioethics commission: a peace making organisation / M.A. Jothi Rajan, Arockiam Thaddeus, T.S. Vivekanadam, S. Umpathy -- Discussion -- International bioethics education project and network -- Introduction to the project on bioethics for informed choices / Darryl Macer -- Teaching about bioethics: a facilitation approach / Lindsey N. Conner -- Clinical anthropology, a PBL method for education of humanity and ethics / Shin'ichi Shoji -- Bioethics education in a Catholic university / Joong Ho Kim -- Philosophy for children: a model for a bioethics community of inquiry / Leonardo de Castro - - Teaching medical ethics in different cultures / Ole Doering -- Bioethics and high school students' views of life: what happened to pupils' consciousness through bioethics lessions / Shunji Miura -- Syllabus of classes on neonaturalistic bioethics: a Polish example / Jan Wawrzyniak -- The application of bioethics in a technical high school as behavioral educational model to strengthen moral values and modify risky behavior among teenage students / Martha Marcela Rodriguez Alanis -- Teaching about brain death / Li Kuang -- Lessons on thinking about bioethics with high school students / Naoki Shiraishi -- Bioethics education in the University of Madras & MGR Medical University / Aruna Sivakami -- Teaching about animal rights / Lei Li -- Teaching about truth telling / Dena Hsin-Chen Hsin -- What medical students expect from medical ethics classes / Kenji Hattori -- Teaching about genetic privacy / Fu Jinhua -- Video conferencing for bioethics education: a trial in bioethics education to combine different subjects, different grade students, different regions and different schools / Yuzuru Shatari -- Video conferencing for bioethics education / Mika Asato -- Trials at Ateneo de Manila High School / Ester Estrella M. Abito - - Bringing ethics to life: teaching bioethics at both the high school and college levels in China / Baoqi Su -- Trials in the middle school attached to Beijing Normal University / Jing Zhuo - - The gazing of life-to discuss, to construct and to form a common life ethic via images / Wang Bing -- Taiwanese trials of bioethics in freshman english classes / Jin Hwa Lee -- Australian feedback on the bioethics education project with special reference to lifestyle factors affecting fertility and the assisted reproductive technologies / Irina Pollard -- Japanese trials of the bioethics education project / Fumi Maekawa and Darryl Macer -- Teaching about surrogacy / Shigeko Tsuboi -- Teaching about GM food in the context of the Japanese economy / Toru Yamashita -- Courses re-thinking health and illness / Hiroaki Koizumi -- Discussing "choice" as "one's own issue" / Takejiro Ishizuka and Kazuya Eguchi -- Innovative technique of introducing bioethics: programmed instructions / M.A. Jothi Rajan, Arockiam Thaddeus, T.S. Vivekanandam, S. Umapathy, S. Jeyakumar -- Bioethics education and information ethics education / Kaneo Inoue -- Health education for Dalit ("untouchable") mothers in Tamil-Nadu: report and evaluation / Frank (Yeruham) Leavitt -- Continuing medical education and bioethics: another option to advance bioethics in Taiwan / Shiu- I Yang & Mu-Li Wu -- Bioethics as technology education / Peter A. Sy -- Nepalese children are not a peace zone / Prem Kaidi -- Teaching bioethics: a pedagogical model using children' s complementation of moral conflict stories / Eliane S. Azevedo, Synara M. Leal and Erico M. Gonyalves