How should doctors approach patients? A Confucian reflection on personhood

How should doctors approach patients? A Confucian reflection on personhood.

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision making. Respecting the wishes of patients, amounting to more than mere concern for their welfare, has become the feature central to certain modern bioethics theories. A group of ethical principles...

How much should doctors tell their patients?

The impact of the electronic media and interactive technology today is phenomenal and is changing our world in profound ways, in the realms of science, space, sports, travel, entertainment and communication, to name a few. The information age is squarely upon the human race, and thriving inexorably on its voracious appetite for knowledge. Never has the term "information on one's finger tips" be...

Dao, Harmony and Personhood: Towards a Confucian Ethics of Technology

A closer look at the theories and questions in philosophy of technology and ethics of technology shows the absence and marginality of non-Western philosophical traditions in the discussions. Although, increasingly, some philosophers have sought to introduce non-Western philosophical traditions into the debates, there are few systematic attempts to construct and articulate general accounts of et...

Abortion, Bioethics, and Personhood: A Philosophical Reflection

Abortion is the issue that first brought evangelical Christians and other cultural conservatives into the arena of bioethics. Although today bioethics is dominated by other issues that are perceived as more pressing, the answer to the philosophical question lurking behind abortion--Who and what are we?--turns out to be the key that unlocks the ethical quandaries posed by these other issues. Aft...

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