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Cross Cultural Introduction to Bioethics

The 2012 updated interactive iBook is available free to download on iTunes store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/bioethics-aross-cultures/id540744624?mt=11

The MS Word files as Sections can be downloaded from http://www.eubios.info/ccib.htm

These are convenient for teachers to download and modify as teaching materials!

Preface to 2006 Compilation of materials* (MSdoc, 2962KB) 
Feedback Forms  [ENG (MSdoc, 70KB)]
Teacher Feedback Forms  [ENG (MSdoc, 180KB) / THA (MSdoc, 448KB)]
Student Feedback Forms  [ENG (MSdoc, 154KB)]
Acknowledgements and Authorship  [ENG (MSdoc, 2652KB)]
About the Authors  [ENG (MSdoc, 2652KB)]

Download teaching materials: 
A. Bioethics and the Ethics of Science and Technology (MSdoc, 1728KB) 
1. Making Choices, Diversity and Principles of Bioethics  [ENG (MSdoc, 270KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 278KB) /  JAP (MSdoc, 293KB) / Indonesian (MSdoc, 282KB) / Khmer (MSdoc, KB) / Urdu (MSdoc, KB) / Vietnamese (MSdoc, 300KB) / KOR]
2. Ethics in History and Love of Life  [ENG (MSdoc, 338KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 356KB) / Indonesian (MSdoc, 207KB) / Khmer (MSdoc, KB) / Urdu (MSdoc, KB) / Vietnamese (MSdoc, 185KB)]
3. Moral Agents  [ENG (MSdoc, 120KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 131KB) / KOR]
4. Ethical Limits of Animal Use  [ENG (MSdoc, 244KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 240KB) /  JAP (MSdoc, 101KB) / KOR]
5. Ethics and Nanotechnology  [ENG (MSdoc, 864KB)]
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights  [ENG (PDF, 52KB) / FRE (PDF, 57KB) / JAP (PDF, 246KB) / CHI (PDF, 440KB) / Arabic (PDF, 400KB)]

B. Environmental Ethics (MSdoc, 7432KB)
1. Ecology and Life  [ENG (MSdoc, 512KB) / THA (MSdoc, 345KB)]
2. Biodiversity and Extinction  [ENG (MSdoc, 130KB)]
3. Ecological Ethics  [ENG (MSdoc, 198KB)]
4. Environmental Science  [ENG (MSdoc, 1294KB)]
5. Environmental Economics  [ENG (MSdoc, 1804KB)]
6. Sustainable Development  [ENG (MSdoc, 1345KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 852KB) /  THA (MSdoc, 447KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 519KB) / KOR]
7. Cars and the Ethics of Costs and Benefits  [ENG (MSdoc, 238KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 94KB)]
8. The Energy Crisis and the Environment  [ENG (MSdoc, 1959KB)]
9. Ecotourism  [ENG (MSdoc, 194KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 143KB) / KOR]
10. The Earth Charter  [ENG (MSdoc, 71KB)]

C. Genetics (MSdoc, 1144KB) 
1. Genetics, DNA and Mutation  [ENG (MSdoc, 111KB)]
2. Ethics of Genetic Engineering  [ENG (MSdoc, 84KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 47KB) /  KOR]
3. Genetically Modified Foods  [ENG (MSdoc, 156KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 128KB)]
4. Testing for Cancer Gene Susceptibility  [ENG (MSdoc, 135KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 82KB) / KOR]
5. Genetic Privacy and Information  [ENG (MSdoc, 605KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 572KB) /  THA (MSdoc, 41KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 136KB) / KOR]
6. The Human Genome Project  [ENG (MSdoc, 74KB)]
7. Eugenics  [ENG (MSdoc, 137KB) / KOR]
8. Human Gene Therapy  [ENG (MSdoc, 202KB) / KOR]
9. Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights  [ENG (MSdoc, 78KB) / Japanese / Chinese / THA (PDF) / JAP (PDF, 29KB) / TUR (PDF, 98KB) / Indonesian / Vietnamese]
10. International Declaration on Human Genetic Data  [ENG (PDF, 130KB) / Chinese / Japanese (PDF, 48KB) / POR (PDF, 615) / TUR (PDF, 591KB) / Indonesian / Thai / Vietnamese]

D. Medical Ethics (MSdoc, 688KB) 
1. Informed Consent and Informed Choice  [ENG (MSdoc, 47KB) / THA (MSdoc, 33KB) / CHI (MSdoc, KB) / Indonesian (MSdoc, 48KB) / Khmer(MSdoc, KB) / Urdu (MSdoc, KB) / Vietnamese (MSdoc, 56KB)]
2. Telling the Truth About Terminal Cancer  [ENG (MSdoc, 154KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 47KB) / KOR]
3. Euthanasia  [ENG (MSdoc, 138KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 134KB) /  JAP (MSdoc, 124KB) / KOR]
4. Brain Death  [ENG (MSdoc, 128KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 146KB) /  KOR]
5. Organ Donation  [ENG (MSdoc, 72KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 51KB) ]
6. Brain Death and Organ Transplant Drama  [ENG (MSdoc, 69KB) / KOR]
7. The Heart Transplant  [ENG (MSdoc, 40KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 44KB)]
8. SARS (Severe Acute Respitory Syndrome)  [ENG (MSdoc, 113KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 106KB) ]
9. AIDS and Ethics  [ENG (MSdoc, 145KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 145KB) /  JAP (MSdoc, 105KB)]
10. Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects  [ENG (MSdoc, 61KB)]
11. Bird Flu  [ENG (MSdoc, 40KB)]
12. Indigenous Medicines and Access to Health  [ENG (MSdoc, 50KB)]

E. Reproduction (MSdoc, 885KB) 
1. Lifestyle and Fertility  [ENG (MSdoc, 394KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 432KB) /  JAP (MSdoc, 47KB) / KOR]
2. Assisted Reproduction  [ENG (MSdoc, 254KB) / CHI (MSdoc, 261KB) /  JAP (MSdoc, 79KB) / KOR]
3. Surrogacy  [ENG (MSdoc, 83KB) / JAP (MSdoc, 91KB)]
4. Choosing Your Children's Sex and Designer Children  [ENG (MSdoc, 47KB)]
5. Prenatal Diagnosis of Genetic Disease  [ENG (MSdoc, 45KB)]
6. Female Infanticide  [ENG (MSdoc, 72KB)]
7. Human Cloning  [ENG (MSdoc, 124KB) / THA (MSdoc, 602KB)]
8. United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning  [ENG (PDF, 105KB) / THA (MSdoc, 343KB)]
9. Human Genome Organization Declaration on Stem Cell Research  [ENG (PDF, 101KB)]
10. Exercise on Cloning and Stem Cell Research [ENG (MSdoc, 48KB)] (Not in printed book)
11. Choosing babies [ENG (MSdoc, 71KB)] (Not in printed book)

F. Neuroscience (MSdoc, 696KB) 
1. Advances in Neuroscience and Neuroethics  [ENG (MSdoc, 459KB) / JAP (pdf, 305KB)]
2. Learning to Remember: The Biological Basis of Memory  [ENG (MSdoc, 104KB) / JAP (pdf, 305KB)]
3. The Neuroscience of Pleasure, Reward and Addiction  [ENG (MSdoc, 203KB) / JAP (pdf, 305KB)]

G. Social Ethics (MSdoc, 732KB) 
1. Revisiting the Body  [ENG (MSdoc, 91KB)]
2. Child Labour  [ENG (MSdoc, 329KB) / THA (MSdoc, 1088KB)]
3. Peace and Peace-keeping  [ENG (MSdoc, 326KB)]
4. Human Rights and Responsibilities  [ENG (MSdoc, 85KB)]



A Korean translation of 12 chapters of the 2005 edition (Bioethics Across Cultures) chapters was made by Dr. Ivo Kwon, Ewha Women's University and colleagues in cooperation with the Korean National Commission of UNESCO, and it can be downloaded as single file here. (3Mb, pdf file). The Korean translation indicated below [KOR] on the new English edition refer to the existence of the Korean translation in the first version, which can be downloaded as the complete file.


For other books of Eubios Ethics Institute see the BOOKs link above.

Volunteers are welcome to translate more materials into these and other languages, as are new materials!

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