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Confucian Bioethics
Ruiping . Ed(S): Fan
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Description for Confucian Bioethics
Hardback. Explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, 'human drugs', human experimentation, and justice in health care distribution. This volume is of interest to the readers of bioethics, ethics, and Confucianism, as well as for philosophers and other scholars already familiar with the subject. Editor(s): Fan, Ruiping. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy and Medicine
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792357230
SKU
V9780792357230
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Reviews for Confucian Bioethics
`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