{PDF} The Family, Medical Decision-Making, and Biotechnology: Critical Reflections on Asian Moral Perspectives (Philosophy and Medicine Asian Studies in Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine) Shui Chuen Lee

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.