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. The essays in this volume analyze the ways in which Confucian bioethics can clarify important...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fan, Ruiping
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
Series:Philosophy and medicine ; v. 61.
Philosophy and medicine. Asian studies in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Body, health and virtue
  • pt. II. Suicide, euthanasia and medical futility
  • pt. III. "Human drugs" and human experimentation
  • pt. IV. Just health care and the confucian tradition.