Buddhist Approaches to Abortion
Buddhist Approaches to Abortion
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佛教对堕胎的看法
DOI:
10.1080/09552369108575334
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发表时间:
1991
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影响因子:
0.6
通讯作者:
R. E. Florida
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作者:
R. E. Florida
As we all know, bio-ethics is currently one of the most active areas in Western religious and philosophical discourse. Although Eastern countries are facing the same bio-ethical issues as we are in the West, on the whole, Eastern religious leaders have not systematically dealt with the problems raised by the collision between ancient traditions and explosively advancing medical techniques. In Buddhist circles, for example, the work is just beginning. Dr Pinit Ratanakul of Mahidol University in Bangkok published a book in 1986 entitled Bioethics. Although a Thai Buddhist, Dr Pinit's doctorate is from Yale, and his very interesting study is fundamentally written from a Western point of view. He does note, however, that:Thailand and Thai medicine confront in general the same ethical questions which have been raised in the West; what has been lacking is the systematic, interdisciplinary attention to and discussion of them that has begun in the West through the discipline of Biomédical Ethics. It is time that discussion of a more systematic and intensive nature... be developed in Asian societies.[1]