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Confucian Bioethics

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Ruiping Fan

    1. Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 61)

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

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics

    1. Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics

      • Ruiping Fan
      Pages 1-23

  3. Body, Health and Virtue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Confucian Virtues and Personal Health

      • Peimin Ni
      Pages 27-44

    3. The Neo-Confucian Concept of Body and its Ethical Sensibility

      • Ellen Y Zhang
      Pages 45-65

  5. “Human Drugs” and Human Experimentation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. “Human Drugs” in Chinese Medicine and the Confucian View: An Interpretive Study

      • Jing-Bao Nie
      Pages 167-206

    3. Interpreting Strange Practices

      • Ronald A. Carson
      Pages 207-210

    4. A Confucian Reflection on Experimenting with Human Subjects

      • Xunwu Chen
      Pages 211-232

  6. Just Health Care and the Confucian Tradition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. The Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents

      • Qingjie Wang
      Pages 235-256

    3. Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism

      • Ruiping Fan
      Pages 257-284

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 285-320
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About this book

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 contrast to modern Western liberal perspectives in a number of important ways. In the contemporary world, a wide variety of different moral traditions flourish; there is real moral diversity. Given this circumstance, difficult and even painful ethical conflicts often occur between the East and the West with regard to the issues of life, birth, reproduction, and death. The essays in this volume analyze the ways in which Confucian bioethics can clarify important moral concepts, provide arguments, and offer ethical guidance. The volume should be of interest to both general readers coming afresh to the study of bioethics, ethics, and Confucianism, as well as for philosophers, ethicists, and other scholars already familiar with the subject.

Reviews

`In an era when health care is a hotly contested topic of discussion, Fan's book as an invaluable resource that has much to teach us.'
David S. Blix in Second Opinion, September 2000

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

    Ruiping Fan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Confucian Bioethics

  • Editors: Ruiping Fan

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46867-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5723-0Published: 30 June 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5228-5Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-46867-4Published: 11 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 320

  • Topics: Ethics, Non-Western Philosophy, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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