Table of Contents

Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics.- Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics.- Body, Health and Virtue.- Confucian Virtues and Personal Health.- The Neo-Confucian Concept of Body and its Ethical Sensibility.- Suicide, Euthanasia and Medical Futility.- Confucian Views on Suicide and Their Implications for Euthanasia.- Reflections on the Dignity of Guan Zhong: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Liberal Notions of Suicide.- A Confucian Ethic of Medical Futility.- “Human Drugs” and Human Experimentation.- “Human Drugs” in Chinese Medicine and the Confucian View: An Interpretive Study.- Interpreting Strange Practices.- A Confucian Reflection on Experimenting with Human Subjects.- Just Health Care and the Confucian Tradition.- The Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents.- Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism.

Reviews

`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