Mad dogs and (arguably) madder Scotsmen: biomedical ethics in an Asian context

Examples include: Qiu RZ . Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004; Hoshino K , ed. Japanese and Western Bioethics. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997; Tao J, ed. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im)possibility of Global Bioethics. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002

Nie J-B , Campbell AV . Multiculturalism and Asian bioethics: cultural war or creative dialogue? (Editorial). J Bioethical Inquiry 2007;4:163–7

For a thoughtful analysis of this issue see Widdows H . Is global ethics neocolonialism? An investigation of the issue in the context of bioethics. Bioethics 2007;21:305–15

Sacks J . The Dignity of Difference. London: Continuum, 2003:62

I survey this question anew in my latest book. The Body in Bioethics. Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009