Confucian Bioethics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fan, Ruiping. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 61
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy, Asian.; Medical ethics.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.