Confucian Bioethics
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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