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.

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