The Confucian ethical loadedness of contemporary medicine:a response to commentators
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2024.12.12
- VernacularTitle:当代医疗的儒家伦理负载
- Author:
Ruiping FAN
1
Author Information
1. 香港城市大学,香港 999077
- Keywords:
contemporary medicine;
Confucian thought;
problem-oriented research;
family;
virtue;
regioglobal bioethics
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2024;37(12):1445-1452
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
This article is a response to the insightful comments on my book"Contemporary Medicine and Confucian Thought"in 11 reviews.These reviews all recognize the significance of problem-oriented research in contemporary medical ethics and its close relationship with Confucian ethical traditions and values.They also point out the challenges in aligning contemporary Confucian medical ethics with modern Western ethical perspectives and values.This article analyzes how to develop Confucian virtue theory to address these issues appropriately,answering some specific criticisms raised in the reviews of my work,delving into how to inherit Confucian family ethics,and continue and revitalize Confucian family ethics traditions in the healthcare field.Finally,preliminary reflections are made on the relationship between"Confucian public reason"and"Confucian bioethics,"proposing"regioglobal bioethics"to replace"global bioethics."
