Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Principle of Vulnerability: Meeting Ground of Six Religions

Chapter 2 Vulnerability: How did the principle Come About?

Chapter 3 The Principle of Vulnerability in the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

Chapter 4 Vulnerability: Considerations on the Appropriate Use of the Term in Bioethics

Chapter 5 Vulnerability, Compassion, and Ethical Responsibility: A Buddhist Perspective on the Phenomenology of Illness and Health

Chapter 6 The Ethical and the Legal Aspects of Vulnerability in the Christian Perspective

Chapter 7 Family as First Bulwark for the Vulnerable: Confucian Perspectives on the Anthropology and Ethics of Human Vulnerability

Chapter 8 Between Tradition and Modernity: Bioethics, Human Vulnerability and Social Change

Chapter 9 Human Vulnerability in Islam

Chapter 10 Reflections on Human Vulnerability and the Rabbinic Perspective on Medical Ethics

Chapter 11 Buddhist Perspective on Four Vulnerable Groups: Children, Women, the Elderly and the Disabled

Chapter 12 A Christian Consideration of Human Vulnerability in Healthcare and Research

Chapter 13 Christian Perspective on Vulnerable Groups: The Elderly and the Disabled

Chapter 14 Health Care and Human Vulnerability: A Confucian Perspective

Chapter 15 Hindu Perspective on Vulnerable Groups: Children, Women, the Elderly and the Disabled

Chapter 16 Islamic Perspectives on Vulnerable Groups

Chapter 17 Jewish Perspective on Vulnerable Groups: The Elderly and the Disabled

Chapter 18 Jewish Perspective on Vulnerable Groups: Women and Children

Chapter 19 Lessons Learned

Chapter 20 Appendices