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China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market

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Editors:
  1. Julia Tao

    1. City University of Hong Kong, China

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  • Provides a unique set of perspectives on health care reform in China
  • Provides contemporary Confucian, other Chinese, and Western perspectives on the perceived difficulties of market reforms in health care
  • Provides an important overview of the health care system in China prior to the market reforms of the 1980s and 90s from Chinese scholars who are familiar with the full range of implications of those policies
  • Provides reflections of contemporary Confucian and other perspectives on the role of trust in the doctor patient relationship

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 96)

Part of the book sub series: Asian Studies in Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine (ASBP)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction: Trust, the Market, and Bioethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Bioethics of Trust

      • Julia Tao
      Pages 3-5

    3. Chinese Health Care Policy: An Introduction to the Moral Challenges

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr, Aaron E. Hinkley
      Pages 7-23

  4. Trust, Profit, Scarcity, and Integrity: Confucian Thought and Traditional Morality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Confucian Trust, Market and Health Care Reform

      • Julia Tao
      Pages 75-87

    3. The Pursuit of an Efficient, Sustainable Health Care System in China

      • Ana Iltis
      Pages 89-116

    4. A Reconstructionist Confucian Approach to Chinese Health Care

      • Ruiping Fan
      Pages 117-133

  6. Looking to the Future of China: Can Confucius Guide the Health Care Market?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. On the Reform of Health Care Reform

      • Ren-Zong Qiu
      Pages 181-192

    3. Is Singapore’s Healthcare System Morally Problematic?

      • Justin Ho
      Pages 193-210
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to the Moral Challenges H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Aaron E. Hinkley 1 Taking Finitude Seriously in a Chinese Cultural Context Across the world, health care policy is a moral and political challenge. Few want to die young or to suffer, yet not all the money in the world can deliver physical immortality or a life free of suffering. In addition, health care needs differ. As a result, unless a state coercively forbids those with the desire and means to buy better basic health care to do so, access to medicine will be unequal. No co- try can afford to provide all with the best of care. In countries such as China, there are in addition stark regional differences in the quality and availability of health care, posing additional challenges to public policy-making. Further, in China as elsewhere, the desire to lower morbidity and mortality risks has led to ever more resources being invested in health care. When such investment is supported primarily by funds derived from taxation, an increasing burden is placed on a country’s economy. This is particularly the case as in China with its one-child policy, where the proportion of the elderly population consuming health care is rising. Thesepolicychallengesarecompoundedbymoraldiversity. Defacto,humansdo not share one morality. Instead, they rank cardinal human goods and right-making conditions in different orders, often not sharing an af?rmation of the same goods or views of the right.

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  • City University of Hong Kong, China

    Julia Tao

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