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"The ideas behind this book were shaped by an international conference organised by the editors and held online between 30 September and 2 October 2020"--ECIP acknowledgements.
List of contents
Introduction Daisy Cheung, Michael Dunn and Richard Huxtable; Part I. Well-Regulated Jurisdictions: 1. Advance directives in Israel Miriam Bentwich; 2. Advance medical directives in Singapore: a faltering policy for end-of-life care? Tracey Evans Chan; 3. South Korea's end-of-life care decisions act: law for better end-of-life care Ilhak Lee; 4. The law and practice of advance directives in Taiwan Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai; 5. Advance directives: the Thai context Thitinant Tengaumnuay; 6. Advance directives in India: seeking the individual within the community Kelly Amal Dhru and Ravindra Ghooi; Part II. Semi-Regulated Jurisdictions: 7. The proposed new law on advance directives in Hong Kong: a piecemeal attempt at codification? Daisy Cheung and Rebecca Lee; 8. The law and practice of advance directives in the Islamic Republic of Iran Zain Abbas Syed, Ehsan Shamsi-Gooshki and Alireza Parsapoor; 9. The law and practice of advance directives and end-of-life care in Malaysia Sharon Kaur, Thomas Tan Hooi Wang, Jenny Yau and Richard Boon Leong Lim; 10. Advance directives in the Philippines: in search of a legal framework Leonardo D. de Castro, Renato B. Manaloto and Alexander Atrio L. Lopez; 11. Advance directives and the Turkey context Yesim Isil Ulman; Part III. Non-Regulated Jurisdictions: 12. Advance directives in China's mainland: an emerging framework? Bo Chen; 13. Guideline-based approach to end-of-life care decisions in Japan: practice, regulation and the place of advance directives Reina Ozeki-Hayashi, Futoshi Iwata, Satoshi Kodama and Miho Tanaka; 14. Advance directives in Macao: not legally recognised, but... Vera Lúcia Raposo and Man Teng Iong; 15. Advance directives in Pakistan: religious, cultural and social influences M. Asim Beg, Erfan Hussain, Noshin Khan, Asma Hamid and Atif Waqar; 16. Advance directives in Saudi Arabia: an Islamic approach and practical implications Ghaiath Hussein and Abdullah Adlan; Advance directives in Asia: towards 'generative accommodation' Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn; Index.
Summary
This book will appeal not only to Asian scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of health law and ethics and end-of-life care more generally, but will also be of wider interest to an international academic audience in the fields of law, ethics and health and social care research.
