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Confucian Bioethics

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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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 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 analyse the ways in which Confucian bioethics can clarify important moral concepts, provide arguments, and offer ethical guidance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-06-30
Mått155 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy and Medicine
Antal sidor320
Upplaga1999
FörlagKluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN9780792357230

Tillhör följande kategorier

Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Medicinsk etik och läkaretik inom Medicin

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.