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, a
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 6 1 Editors H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine and Philosophy Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas S. E Spicker, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Boston, Mass.
ASIAN STUDIES IN BIOETHICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE 1 Series Editor Ruiping Fan, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA Editorial Advisory Board Kazumasa Hoshino, Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan Shui Chuen Lee, National Central University, Chung-li, Taiwan Ping-cheung Lo, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Ren-Zong Qiu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
CONFUCIAN BIOETHICS Edited by
RUIPING FAN Centerfor Medical Ethics and Health Policy Baylor College ofMedicine Houston,USA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS RUIPING FAN / Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics
1
PART I / BODY, HEALTH AND VIRTUE PEIMIN NI / Confucian Virtues and Personal Health ELLEN Y. ZHANG / The Neo-Confucian Concept ofBody and its
Ethical Sensibility
27 45
PART II / SUICIDE, EUTHANASIA AND MEDICAL FUTILITY PING-CHEUNG LO / Confucian Views on Suicide and
Their Implications for Euthanasia
69
GEORGE KHUSHF / Reflections on the Dignity ofGuan Zhong:
A Comparison of Confucian and Western Liberal Notions of Suicide EDWIN HUI / A Confucian Ethic ofMedical Futility
103 127
PART III / “HUMAN DRUGS” AND HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION JING-BAO NIE / “Human Drugs” in Chinese Medicine and the
Confucian View: An Interpretive Study
167 207
Human Subjects
211
RONALD A. CARSON / Interpreting Strange Practices XUNWUCHEN / A Confucian Reflection on Experimenting with
PART IV /JUST HEALTH CARE AND THE CONFUCIAN TRADITION QINGJIE WANG / The Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for
Aged Parents
RUIPING FAN / Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism CHINESE GLOSSARY NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX OF CHINESE TERMS INDEX
235 257 285 299 301 305
RUIPING FAN
INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A CONFUCIAN BIOETHICS I. “MUSEUM” BIOETHICS OR REAL BIOETHICS? The title of this volume, Confician Bioethics, may sound odd to some. It is odd to them not because they find Confucianism has lost its traditional strength in its homeland. It is odd because they doubt any essential relevance that Confucianism still has to contemporary society in general or to bioethical issues in particular. As the world changes, it seems that all traditional world views
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