Thai and American doctors on medical ethics: Religion, regulation, and moral reasoning across borders

► Compares Thai and American doctors' styles of moral reasoning in recent writings on medical ethics. ► Discusses the roles of national identity, religion, personal virtue, and secular rules in physicians' ethical discourse. ► Findings shed light on debates about “Eastern collectivism” versus “Western individualism”. ► Identifies differences in moral frameworks that may pose challenges to cross-national collaboration.