ABSTRACT
Most of the authors pay attention to the marginal position of bioethics in academic discourse. As part of a discourse on Western bioethics, it has carried a specific cultural baggage, which the increased application of new bio-medical technologies is putting to question: not only in Asia, but also in the West. The different levels of access to the new medical technologies, the cultural and ethical problems engendered by their application, and political pronouncements on concepts related to the biomedical field-such as cloning, stem cell research, eugenics and euthanasia-are only a few examples of the issues raised in this volume.
