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    This essay illustrates what the Chinese family-based and harmony-oriented model of medical decision making is like as well as how it differs from the modern Western individual-based and autonomy-oriented model in health care practice. The essay discloses the roots of the Chinese model in the Confucian account of the family and the Confucian view of harmony. By responding to a series of questions posed to the Chinese model by modern Western scholars in terms of the basic individualist concerns an…Read more
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    Toward a Confucian Family-Oriented Health Care System for the Future of China
    with Y. Cao and X. Chen
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (5): 452-465. 2011.
    Recently implemented Chinese health insurance schemes have failed to achieve a Chinese health care system that is family-oriented, family-based, family-friendly, or even financially sustainable. With this diagnosis in hand, the authors argue that a financially and morally sustainable Chinese health care system should have as its core family health savings accounts supplemented by appropriate health insurance plans. This essay’s arguments are set in the context of Confucian moral commitments that…Read more
  •  76
    Which medicine? Whose standard? Critical reflections on medical integration in China
    with I. Holliday
    Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (8): 454-461. 2007.
    There is a prevailing conviction that if traditional medicine (TRM) or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are integrated into healthcare systems, modern scientific medicine (MSM) should retain its principal status. This paper contends that this position is misguided in medical contexts where TRM is established and remains vibrant. By reflecting on the Chinese policy on three entrenched forms of TRM (Tibetan, Mongolian and Uighur medicines) in western regions of China, the paper challen…Read more
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    Exploring the Bioethics of Long-Term Care
    with J. T. L. Po Wah and H. M. Chan
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (5): 395-399. 2007.