Advance Directives Across Asia

Daisy Cheung is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the law and ethics of mental health and capacity, and she has published on these topics across a number of contexts, including a funded project on adult guardianship. She is a member of the Mental Health Law Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong. Michael Dunn is Associate Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is an internationally-renowned bioethicist, and has made major contributions in clinical ethics, social care ethics and research ethics. He has been a pioneer in establishing and shaping the methodological sub-field of empirical bioethics. He has written over seventy peer-reviewed academic papers, and co-authored or co-edited five other books.

• 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.