BIOETHICS-ASIA
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Welcome Message
Bioethics-Asia is intended to serve as a discussion forum on the Internet for various issues in Asian Bioethics. We hope that it will support the following ideas which inspired the founding of the East Asian Association of Bioethics in 1995, and continues to guide its ongoing transformation following the widening to the Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) in the UNESCO Asian Bioethics Conference, Nov 1997 in Kobe, Japan:
- Bioethics should be based on the ethos, the way of thinking, and world view of people with unique cultural backgrounds. It is not necessarily universal.
- There may be significant differences and contrasts between the Asian ethos and European or North American perspectives on ethics. Therefore we think we have to explore our Asian character, and develop our own bioethics.
- However, the understanding of Asian Bioethics must be globalized. It should pursue harmony with other bioethics, especially, with the currently dominant American and European bioethics.
With these things in mind we would like to encourage serious debate in this forum, and call for wide participation, among all peoples.
Bioethics-Asia is moderated and maintained by Prof. Leonardo de Castro (decastro@kssp.upd.edu.ph) and Prof. Peter A. Sy (psy@kssp.upd.edu.ph) of the University of the Philippines. Some comments or letters may be used by Prof. Darryl Macer (macer@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp) of the Eubios Institute (Japan and New Zealand), editor of Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics (EJAIB), the official journal of ABA, for that journal.
To join the Asian Bioethics Association contact:
Hyakudai Sakamoto, Ph.D.
President, Asian Bioethics Association
c/o University Research Center, Nihon University
4-8-24 Kudan-Minami, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 102, JAPAN
Phone: Int+81-3-5275-8137
Fax: Int+81-3-5275-8326
Telex: NICHIDAI J29496
Email: sakamoto@chs.nihon-u.ac.jp
For more on Asian Bioethics, please visit the Eubios website at:
http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/index.html http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/EJAIB.html
Prof. Leonardo de Castro and Prof. Peter A. Sy
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