The Family, Medical Decision-Making, and Biotechnology

Download or read book The Family, Medical Decision-Making, and Biotechnology written by Shui Chuen Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the implications of Confucian moral and ontological understandings for medical decision-making, human embryonic stem cell research, and health care financing. The book reveals East Asian attitudes on the moral status of human embryos and the morality of embryonic stem cell research that are quite different from Christian and Muslim cultural perspectives. The book also discusses how Confucian cultural resources can help meet the challenges of health care financing.