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“Hindu” Bioethics?
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (1):51-58 (2008)
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The author offers a commentary on the question, “Are there Hindu bioethics?” After deconstructing the term “Hindu,” the author shows that there are indeed no Hindu bioethics. He shows that from a classical and Brahminical perspective, medicine is an inappropriate and impure professionAuthor's Profile
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Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas.Cornelia Dimmitt - 1978 - Temple University Press.
Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American Context.S. Cromwell Crawford - 1995 - SUNY Press.
Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American Context.Lloyd Steffen & S. Cromwell Crawford - 1997 - Philosophy East and West 47 (1):86.
Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Purāṇas.David Dell - 1981 - Philosophy East and West 31 (2):240-240.
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