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This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. It reports on contemporary wide-ranging social and communal problems facing people in the areas of politics, gender, bioethics and ecology.
This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. It reports on contemporary wide-ranging social and communal problems facing people in the areas of politics, gender, bioethics and ecology.
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Autorenporträt
Purushottama Bilimoria works in the areas of Indian and cross-cultural philosophy, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, critical thinking and diaspora studies. He is a Distinguished Professor of Law and International Philosophy at O. P. Jindal Global University, and a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, Delhi-NCR, India. A Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, he is also Permanent Fellow of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies; he was named Lead Scientist (in 2021-2022) of the Purushottama Centre for Study of Indian Philosophy and Culture at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow; Co-founder of Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sophia and Associate Editor Journal of Dharma Studies. They have been a recipient of several awards: Distinguished Fulbright-Nehru Excellence in Teaching and Research Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation, Templeton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Australia Research Council. His recent publications include Testimony in Indian Philosophy (revised, 2018); History of Indian Philosophy (with Amy Rayner, 2018); Religion and Sustainability (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021); Contemplative Studies and Hinduism (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021); Contemplative Studies and Jainism (co-edited with R. Sherma and C. Bohenac, 2023); The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology (with Amy Rayner 2023); Engaging Philosophies of Religion; Thinking Across Boundaries (with Gereon Kopf, 2023); Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Irvine, 2009, 2024); and under 200 articles in professional journals. A scholastic institution in its own right, he continues to teach and be a mentor at Cal State University (San Francisco and Long Beach, California) and periodically at the University of California, University of San Francisco, Ashoka University, and the University of Melbourne. Amy Rayner is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (philosophy). Amy has worked alongside Purushottama Bilimoria for 15 years, assisting with editing, research and writing. She was the editorial secretary of Sophia and is an editorial assistant for Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. She served as Assistant Editor and Project Secretary for publications including Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagements (2015); Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (2009); and Routledge's acclaimed History of Indian Philosophy (2018). Her experience in Buddhism has ranged from an interest in philosophy and meditation to engagement with social change, education and well-being. She qualified as a Buddhist Chaplain and secular spiritual carer in Canberra, Australia, in 2011 and worked at a Buddhist school and orphanage for children living with HIV in Bihar, India. Inspired by the authors of this book, in 2022, Amy trained and now teaches secular ethics at her local primary school in regional Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Contributors xiv
Preface xxiv
Foreword xxviii
Shyam RanganathanIntroduction
1
Purushottama Bilimoria and Amy Rayner
Prologue: India in the World: The Historical Context for Intercultural Ethicality 24
Dipesh Chakrabarty
PART I
Health, Ethics and Public Welfare 35
1 Public Health, Care and Bioethics in Modern India 37
Purushottama Bilimoria2
COVID-19: Lessons in Ethics for Social Assets 54
Om Prakash Dwivedi
3 Biotechnology and Ethics in India 63
Jyoti Dineshrao Bhosale
4 Moral Responsibility and Pharmaceutical Companies 75
Gauri Seth (Verma)
5 Mental Illness and Mental Health Justice 86
Purushottama Bilimoria
6 Embryo Ethics: Traditional Hindu Perspective 99
Piyali Mitra
7 Abortion, Reproductive Rights and the Unborn: Between Tradition and Modernity 108
Purushottama Bilimoria, M. K. Sridhar and Arvind Sharma
8 Female Infanticide: Ethics of Death in the Shadow of Motherhood and Childbirth in India 121
Purushottama Bilimoria and Renuka Sharma
9 The Theatre of Surrogacy: Ethics of Surrogacy in India 135
Kelly Amal Dhru and Purushottama Bilimoria
10 Dying with Dignity: Sallekhana vis-a- vis Euthanasia - Normative, Bioethical and Legal Ramifications 142
Purushottama Bilimoria
PART II
Ecology, Sustainability and Spirituality 159
11 Ethics of Genetic Modification: Commerce without Morality and Science without Humanity - A Gandhian Response 161
Gunjan Pradhan Sinha
12 Ethics, Science and Sustainability: A Gandhian Alternative 170
Bidisha Mallik
13 Climate Change and Development Ethics after Amartya Sen 184
Lindsay Dawson
14 WATER: Rites, Rights and Ecological Justice in India 197
Purushottama Bilimoria and M. K. Sridhar
15 Protection of the Indian Coastal Ecosystem through Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notifications: An Analysis 211
