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On August 15, 1979, the first author of this article presented a paper concerning the philosophy of medicine at Sophia University in Tokyo. In the audience were philosophers, theologians, and physicians — they were politely puzzled concerning the claims made about the new field of bioethics. During that trip to Tokyo, the first author also visited in passing at Kitasato University’s hospital in Tokyo. In all of these meetings, it was clear that the Americans, Texans, and Japanese saw issues of bioethics from radically different perspectives. Yet, the Americans claimed that the differences were superficial. In fact, they held that all sides should come to recognize that they shared a common understanding of ethics, which was to ground the new field of bioethics.
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See the discussion in Bayertz and Schmidt on Wikler’s presentation at the 1993 conference, p. 88, this volume. As they observe, “[h]ere, the brain death criterion appears to be the product of a context-free rationality; its metaphysical and cultural foundations are simply ignored” (p. 88).
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Engelhardt, H.T., Rasmussen, L.M. (2002). Bioethics in the Plural: An Introduction to Taking Global Moral Diversity Seriously. In: Engelhardt, H.T., Rasmussen, L.M. (eds) Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0902-6_1
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