Toward a Directed Benevolent Market Polity: Rethinking Medical Morality in Transitional China

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    Abstract

    Healthcare systems in Singapore, Hong Kong, and mainland China are strikingly distinct from those in the West. Economically speaking, each of the aforementioned Eastern systems relies in great measure on private expenditures supplemented by savings accounts. Western nations, on the other hand, typically exhibit government funding and wariness about healthcare savings accounts. This essay argues that these and other differences between Pacific Rim healthcare systems and Western systems should be assessed in light of background Confucian commitments operating in the former. In the Confucian context, bioethics and healthcare policy have a unique content, texture, and set of implications that often affront Western assumptions about the appropriate individual autonomy of patients and the appropriate character of social safety nets for healthcare. © 2008 Cambridge University Press.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)280-292
    JournalCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
    Volume17
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2008

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