Overview

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.

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Author:   Ruiping Fan
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   61
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9789048152285

ISBN 10:   9048152283
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.- “Human Drugs” and Human Experimentation.- “Human Drugs” 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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'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

`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

'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

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