https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/186696
Title: | Ancient Chinese Medical Ethics and the Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics | Authors: | TSAI, FU-CHANG 蔡甫昌 |
Keywords: | Chinese medical ethics;principlism;autonomy | Issue Date: | 1999 | Journal Volume: | v.25 | Journal Issue: | n.4 | Start page/Pages: | 315-321 | Source: | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS | Abstract: | The four principles approach to biomedical ethics (4PBE) has , since the 1970s, been increasingly developed as a universal bioethics method. Despite its wide acceptance and popularity, the 4PBE has received many challenges to its cross-cultural plausibility. This paper first specifies the principles and characteristics of ancient Chinese medical ethics (ACME ), then makes a comparison between ACME and the 4PBE with a view to testing out the 4PBE's cross-cultural plausibility when applied to one particular but very extensive and prominent cultural context. The result shows that the concepts of respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice are clearly identifiable in ACME. Yet, being influenced by certain socio-cultural factors, those applying the 4PBE in Chinese society may tend to adopt a "beneficence-oriented", rather than an "autonomy-oriented " approach, which, in general, is dissimilar to the practice of contemporary Western bioethics, where "autonomy often triumphs ". |
URI: | http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/99582 |
Appears in Collections: | 醫學系 |
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