Confucian Bioethics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fan, Ruiping (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 61
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy, Asian.; Medical ethics.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Theory of Medicine/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, and moral convictions, which stand in con...