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Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics -- Introduction: Towards a Confucian Bioethics -- Body, Health and Virtue -- Confucian Virtues and Personal Health -- The Neo-Confucian Concept of Body and its Ethical Sensibility -- Suicide, Euthanasia and Medical Futility -- Confucian Views on Suicide and Their Implications for Euthanasia -- Reflections on the Dignity of Guan Zhong: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Liberal Notions of Suicide -- A Confucian Ethic of Medical Futility -- "Human Drugs" and Human Experimentation -- "Human Drugs" in Chinese Medicine and the Confucian View: An Interpretive Study -- Interpreting Strange Practices -- A Confucian Reflection on Experimenting with Human Subjects -- Just Health Care and the Confucian Tradition -- The Confucian Filial Obligation and Care for Aged Parents -- Just Health Care, the Good Life, and Confucianism.

Reviews progress in policy development in CM; includes policy models from other health care systems in East and Southeast Asia, including China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan; recommendations.

This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact. What are the implications of sex robots and related technological innovations for society and culture? How should we evaluate the significance of sexual relations with robots that look like women, men or children? Critics argue that sex robots present a clear risk to real persons and a social degradation that will increase sexual violence, objectify women, encourage pedophilia, reinforce negative body images, increase forms of sexual dysfunction, and pass on sexually transmitted disease. Proponents judge robotic sexual companionship as just another step in the exploration of human desire. They see sex robots, and similar technology, such as virtual reality pornography, as providing autonomy affirming companionship for the lonely and a relatively harmless outlet for sexual fantasies that avoids the use of human prostitutes and thus reduces sexual victimization. Some appreciate sex robots as a social evil, others as a positive good, and still others as a harmless pastime. How we come to terms with such conceptual and moral concerns will have significant implications for society and the future of human relations. This book is of great interest to researchers in bioethics, human sexual behavior, AI ethics, and philosophy of sex

Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Mark J. Cherry) -- Part I. Digisexuality, Sexbots, and Other Twenty-First Century Innovations -- Chapter 2. Sociable Robots for Later Life: Carebots, Friendbots and Sexbots (Nancy S. Jecker) -- Chapter 3. Does a Love Machine have Emotions? An Ethical Examination of Empathy in Human-Robot Relations ( Wang Jue) -- Chapter 4. Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink: Sex Robots as Social Influencers ( Mark Howard and Robert Sparrow) -- Part II. Sex: Shifting Cultural and Moral Norms -- Chapter 5. Why Sex? Sex-bots from a Daoist Perspective (Ellen Y. Zhang) -- Chapter 6. Could You Marry a Sex Robot? Shifting Sexual Norms and the Transformation of the Family (Mark J. Cherry) -- Chapter 7. The Moral Significance of Human-Likeness in Sex Robots: A Confucian Perspective (Lawrence Yung) -- Chapter 8. What Kinds of Use of Sex Robots Can be Morally Allowed? A Confucian Perspective (Hanhui Xu) -- Chapter 9. Simulated Sex: On the Public Health Crisis of Unbridled Eroticism (Ryan Nash) -- Part III. Reponses and Critique -- Chapter 10. Response and Critique to Part I -- Chapter 11: Response and Critique to Part II (Ruiping Fan).

As China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing--China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian political thinker--says yes. In this book, he sets out a vision for a Confucian constitutional order that offers a compelling alternative to both the status quo in China and to a Western-style liberal democracy. A Confucian Constitutional Order is the most detailed and systematic

As China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing--China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian political thinker--says yes. In this book, he sets out a vision for a Confucian constitutional order that offers a compelling alternative to both the status quo in China and to a Western-style liberal democracy. A Confucian Constitutional Order is the most detailed and systematic work on Confucian constitutionalism to date.

This volume provides a unique perspective on the market reforms currently taking place in Chinese health care. The authors come to grips with the changes taking place in Chinese health care and its effect on the traditional doctor-patient relationship, but also its positive effects on the availability and quality of health care particularly in urban areas. In doing so the various authors wrestle with moral, political and social issues deeply ingrained in Chinese culture as well as the perceived practical and moral difficulties associated with the change to a market oriented economy especially