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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Weitere Verfasser: Fan, Ruiping
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
Schriftenreihe:Philosophy and medicine ; v. 61.
Philosophy and medicine. Asian studies in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine ; 1.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.