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KMID : 1025620070100010023
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Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
2007 Volume.10 No. 1 p.23 ~ p.32
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A Cross-Cultural Approach to Biomedical Ethics: Medical Decision Making
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Lee Sang-Mok
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Abstract
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The supremacy of individual consent and autonomy in resolving bioethical problems and medical decision making is increasingly being called into question in Eastern cultures, where long-standing customs and traditions often clash with the Western principles of autonomy, self-determination, and individual rights. In order to strengthen and promote medical ethics and bioethics in the East, a detailed understanding of the ethical traditions of both civilizations is needed. This study goes some way toward fulfilling that need by providing a cross-cultural comparison of Eastern and Western bioethics and examining Confucian and Western moral perspectives on medical decision making.
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KEYWORD
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Medical decision making, Moral perspective, Biomedical ethics, Cross-cultural approach, Self-determination, Family-determination
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