Confucian Bioethics

This volume explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, `human drugs,' human experimentation, and justice in health care distribution. These views are rooted in Confucian metaphysical, cosmological, and moral convictions, which stand in con...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fan, Ruiping. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine ; 61
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505 0 # |a Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics -- Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics -- Body, Health and Virtue -- Confucian Virtues and Personal Health -- The Neo-Confucian Concept of Body and its Ethical Sensibility -- Suicide, Euthanasia and Medical Futility -- Confucian Views on Suicide and Their Implications for Euthanasia -- Reflections on the Dignity of Guan Zhong: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Liberal Notions of Suicide -- A Confucian Ethic of Medical Futility -- ỚSHuman DrugsỚ<U+00fd> and Human Experimentation -- ỚSHuman DrugsỚ<U+00fd> in Chinese Medicine and the Confucian View: An Interpretive Study -- Interpreting Strange Practices -- A Confucian Reflection on Experimenting with Human Subjects -- Just Health Care and the Confucian Tradition -- The Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents -- Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism. 
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