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 contrast to modern Western liberal
perspectives in a number of important ways. In the contemporary world, a
wide variety of different moral traditions flourish; there is real moral
diversity. Given this circumstance, difficult and even painful ethical
conflicts often occur between the East and the West with regard to the
issues of life, birth, reproduction, and death. The essays in this
volume analyze the ways in which Confucian bioethics can clarify
important moral concepts, provide arguments, and offer ethical guidance.
The volume should be of interest to both general readers coming afresh
to the study of bioethics, ethics, and Confucianism, as well as for
philosophers, ethicists, and other scholars already familiar with the
subject