Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Culture, Health, and Illness -- Part I, Introduction -- 2. Buddhism, Health, Disease, and Thai Culture -- 3. Concepts of Health and Disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine -- 4. Discourses on Health: A Critical Perspective -- 5. Expanding Notions of Culture for Cross-Cultural Ethics in Health and Medicine -- 6. Health, Health Care, and Culture: Diverse Meanings, Shared Agendas -- Part I, Conclusion -- Part II: Culture and Health Care Ethics -- Part II, Introduction -- 7. Buddhist Health Care Ethics -- 8. Chinese Health Care Ethics -- 9. Secular Health Care Ethics -- Part II, Conclusion -- Part III: Ethical Issues in the Delivery of Health Care Services -- Part III, Introduction -- 10. Pediatric Care: Judgments about Best Interests at the Onset of Life -- 11. Comparing the Participation of Native North American and Euro-North American Patients in Health Care Decisions -- 12. End-of-Life Decisions: Clinical Decisions About Dying and Perspectives on Life and Death -- Part III, Conclusion -- Part IV: Health Policy: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue -- Part IV, Introduction -- 13. A Critical View of North American Health Policy -- 14. Threats from the Western Biomedical Paradigm: Implications for Chinese Herbology and Traditional Thai Medicine -- 15. Global Challenges: Ethical Implications of the Greening of Modern Western Medicine -- Part IV, Conclusion -- 16. Conclusion -- About the Authors -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.