Medical Ethics in China: A Transcultural Interpretation

Medical Ethics in China A Transcultural Interpretation
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Contents
Foreword
Prologue: “Supping with foreign devils”
Introduction: the search for a transcultural bioethics
Part I Beyond stereotypes and stereotyping
	Chapter 1 Communitarian China versus the individualistic West: a popular myth and its roots
	Chapter 2 The fallacy of dichotomizing cultures
	Chapter 3 China as the radical other of the West, or a misconstruction of Foucault: sexual excess as a cause of disease in China and the United States
	Chapter 4 Excursion: “false friends” in cross-cultural understanding, or a misjudgement of Needham: refuting the claim that the ancient Chinese discovered the circulation of the blood
Part II Truths of cultures
	Chapter 5 Taking China’s internal plurality seriously
	Chapter 6 The complexity of cultural differences: the forgotten Chinese tradition of medical truth-telling
	Chapter 7 The “cultural differences” argument and its misconceptions: the return of medical truth-telling in China
	Chapter 8 Is informed consent not applicable in China?: further intellectual flaws of the “cultural differences” argument
PART III Cultural norms embodying universal values
	Chapter 9 Human rights as a Chinese value: a Chinese defense and critique of UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on Bioethics
	Chapter 10 Women’s rights in the Chinese context: toward a Chinese feminist bioethics
PART IV Chinese wisdom for today
	Chapter 11 After cheng (sincerity or truthfulness): the professional ethics of traditional Chinese medicine
	Chapter 12 “Medicine as the art of humanity” and the physician as a general
	Chapter 13 Exploring the core of humanity: a Chinese-Western dialogue on personhood
	Chapter 14 Beyond individualism and communitarianism: a yin-yang model on the ethics of health promotion (with Kirk L. Smith)
Conclusions: toward the uncertain future
Epilogue: thus spoke Hai Ruo (The God of the North Sea)
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the author
Index