The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an
international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in
the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region
of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999. The
conference was organized by the Centre for Comparative Public Management
and Social Policy, and Ethics in Contemporary China Research Group, in
the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of
Hong Kong. The conference brought together scholars from east and west
to investigate the challenges to caring and to traditional moral
authorities that would confront bioethics in the third millennium. They
explored the implications of moral loss and moral diversity in
post-traditional and post-modern societies, and how these would shape
the character of medical care and bioethics discourse in the new era. A
proceedings volume under the same title of Individual, Community &
Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, was published in May 1999
for the conference meeting.