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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most human drugs, intentional consent, xiu shen, legendary farmer, unforced consent, futility determinations, normal opportunity range, disability diminish, futility decisions, futility judgments, medical futility, undignified treatment, health care justice, social personhood, intended separation, consensual commitment, zhong yong, harmonious fit, brotherly respect, uncoerced consent, zhong shu, health care distribution, respectful care, human biological materials, health care allocation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Guan Zhong, New York, Zhu Xi, Confucian Thesis, Bencao Gangmu, Duke Huan, Sima Qian, Hong Kong, East Asian, Ruiping Fan, Great Britain, Prince Jiu, Shao Yong, Song Dynasty, Source Book, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Wang Guowei, Zhang Zai, Commercial Press, Harvard University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Oxford University Press, Biographies of Eminent Monks, Chen Que New!
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most human drugs, intentional consent, xiu shen, legendary farmer, unforced consent, futility determinations, normal opportunity range, disability diminish, futility decisions, futility judgments, medical futility, undignified treatment, health care justice, social personhood, intended separation, consensual commitment, zhong yong, harmonious fit, brotherly respect, uncoerced consent, zhong shu, health care distribution, respectful care, human biological materials, health care allocation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Guan Zhong, New York, Zhu Xi, Confucian Thesis, Bencao Gangmu, Duke Huan, Sima Qian, Hong Kong, East Asian, Ruiping Fan, Great Britain, Prince Jiu, Shao Yong, Song Dynasty, Source Book, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Wang Guowei, Zhang Zai, Commercial Press, Harvard University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Oxford University Press, Biographies of Eminent Monks, Chen Que New!
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- The Doctrine Of The Mean by Confucius on 7 pages
- A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-Tsit Chan on 5 pages
- The Great Learning by Confucius on 4 pages
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 4 pages
- The Book of Rites (Selections) by Confucius on 4 pages
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- Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics: The Example of Human Cloning (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 27) by Heiner Roetz on page 103, page 136, and page 421
- End-of-Life Decision Making: A Cross-National Study (Basic Bioethics) by Robert H. Blank on page 58, and page 59
- Reframing Disease Contextually (Philosophy and Medicine) by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter in Back Matter
- The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure: Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Vol. 1: Foundations (Philosophy and Medicine) by Josef Seifert in Back Matter
- Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus by Tristram H. Engelhardt Jr. on page 298
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