Dignity in long-term care for older persons: A Confucian perspective

Julia Tao Lai Po Wah

doi:10.1080/03605310701626307

Dignity in long-term care for older persons : A Confucian perspective

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Julia Tao Lai Po Wah

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	465-481
Journal / Publication	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Volume	32
Issue number	5
Publication status	Published - Sept 2007

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DOI	DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03605310701626307 Final Published version
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Abstract

This article presents Mencius' concept of human dignity in the Chinese Confucian moral tradition, focused on the context of long-term care. The double nature of Mencius' notion of human dignity as an intrinsic quality of human beings qua being human is analyzed and contrasted with the dominant Western account of human dignity as grounded in personhood. Drawing on the heuristic force of an interview with an elder person in Hong Kong, the insights of the Mencian theory of human dignity are used to provide a moral foundation for long-term care for elder persons in a context of diminishing personhood and shrinking autonomy. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.