Emerging Field of Bioethics in South Asian Religions
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2021) | Viewed by 2712
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Hinduism; Buddhism; South Asian religions; Sanskrit
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Dear Colleagues,
In spite of the extensive scholarly literature on the healing traditions associated with South Asian religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, the field of bioethics in South Asian religions is a nascent one. How do traditional religious views of personhood, body, gender, class and technology inform contemporary approaches to ethical issues such as reproduction technologies and genetic engineering? Katherine Young’s “Hindu Bioethics” (1994) paved the way for the serious academic study of bioethical issues in Hinduism, while Shoyo Tanaguchi’s “Methodology of Buddhist Biomedical Ethics” (1994) and Damien Keown’s Buddhism and Bioethics (2001) brought attention to bioethical issues in Buddhism. S. Cromwell Crawford’s Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-First Century (2003) examines many bioethical issues in even greater depth. There is nevertheless a great deal more work that needs to be done in this emerging field. The need for scholarly work on bioethics in South Asian traditions is becoming more pressing in the face of technologial advances in medical science, genetic engineering, and robotics.
This Special Issue invites contributions that expand and challenge our understanding of bioethics in all South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, and tribal religions. Topics may include, but are not limited to, ethical and religious considerations surrounding in vitro fertilization, contraception, abortion, sex selection, cloning, and genetic engineering in South Asian religious traditions.
Dr. Signe Cohen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioethics
- religion
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Jainism
- Sikhism
- South Asian religions
