Thesis (M.A.)--Wake Forest University. Dept. of Religion, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-79)

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 2004. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-152).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 2004. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-152).

Abstract When it comes to the management of non-profit organizations, our country¡¦s academic sector has always placed an emphasis on the organization¡¦s decision making nuclei or those in command, and their effects on the fulfillment of organizational goals, resources placed into operation, efficiency, satisfaction, and other such self-management analysis. Seldom did they adopt an ¡§ethically-oriented¡¨ method of management. Instead they viewed the medical industry as a for-profit business, stressing business strategies and marketing, and therefore regarded patients as customers. This Study¡¦s Characteristics: 1. Focuses on medical and religious philosophies for investigation. Unlike single-issue studies, this study uses medicine as the primary basis for its perspective, and adds religious beliefs (Buddhism) to probe each health care morality issue. Health care morality issues include: abortion, cloning, euthanasia, organ transplants, and hospice care. In addition to ethical standpoints on medicine, using the sorted investigations on religious documents, we looked deeper into the viewpoints of Buddhism. 2. Feature: Besides investigating the morality of the body and flesh of ordinary medicine, we probed further into the root of the ethics of the mind. In retrospect to ¡§Medical Ethics¡¨, and the viewpoints of eastern and western medicine, we went beyond the perceptions of ordinary medicine, and explored a deeper plane of the mind, so as to increase the depth of health care ethics. Results: Through a factor analysis, we ended up with 10 factors: (hospice care, euthanasia, surrogate mothers, cloning and genetic issues, therapeutic art, religious care, stem cells, medical ethics, and abortion issues) and analyzed them according to 3 morality decision models to identify which is the best suited. Results: efficiency model and ethics model had positive effects on hospice care and therapeutic ethics, while as liability model had negative effects; liability model and ethics model had positive effects on religious care, medical ethics, and abortion issues; all 3 models, efficiency model, ethics model, and liability model, had positive effects on genetic issues and stem cells; efficiency model had positive effects on euthanasia, while as ethics model had negative effects; liability model had positive effects on surrogate mothers; liability model had positive effects on cloning issues, while as efficiency model and ethics model had opposite effects. Did people have different attitudes towards health care ethics? Results: the general public and medical personnel had significantly different attitudes towards hospice care, genetic issues, and therapeutic ethics; medical personnel, religious personnel, and the general public had significantly different attitudes towards religious care, stem cells, and abortion issues; medical personnel, patients, religious personnel, and the general public had significantly different attitudes towards medical ethics; medical personnel and religious personnel had significantly different attitudes towards euthanasia; the opinions of the groups were unanimous towards surrogate mothers and cloning issues. As to individual orientation, the higher the person¡¦s education level, the less he or she places emphasis on health care morality issues. Perhaps since medical ethics is only beginning to be drawn attention to in our country, most people with a higher degree of education have not yet concerned themselves to this level. In summary, this is worth the attention of our current education ministry. Key words¡GMedical Ethics¡AHuman Cloning¡AHospice

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Michael Ruse, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Philosophy. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 9, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

No abstract available. / Thesis (LL.M.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2002.

University of Macau / Faculty of Law

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).

This thesis discusses the prohibition of human cloning in contemporary Islamic legal discourse, which relies on two distinct doctrines: the first seeks support in the Qur'anic text, while the second depends on method of utilitarian legal hermeneutics (al-istiṣlaḥ ). These doctrines are examined by comparing them to the method that contemporary Islamic legal discourse adopts, namely, uṣul al-fiqh. When this is done, a discrepancy emerges in the first doctrine that traces this prohibition back to the text of revelation, which in turn requires further clarification of the foundations of hermeneutics in uṣul al-fiqh---identified here as textual and legislative consistency. For this, Shaṭibi's theory of maqaṣid al-sharī'ah offers one of the most reliable bases for the hermeneutics to evaluate the second doctrine. The methodological venture in this thesis aims at criticizing the current methodology while at the same time offering a justified approach to hermeneutics in contemporary Islamic legal discourse and in the case of human cloning.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-182).