Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: A Confucian Critique

Jonathan Chan*

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    Abstract

    The paper discusses the moral position of Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights which takes human rights, and its related moral precepts, to be the fundamental ethical framework in dealing with ethical issues raised by medicine, life sciences and associated technologies as applied to human beings. The paper begins by identifying the fundamental principles as well as some other derivative and specifying principles of the ethical framework in question. It then moves to discuss some general problems with adopting the ethical framework of human rights by focusing on the rationality of the notion of human rights. The paper then discusses the moral position of the Declaration from a Confucian perspective.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationReligious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights
    EditorsJoseph Tham, Kai Man Kwan, Alberto Garcia
    PublisherSpringer Cham
    Pages103-113
    Number of pages11
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9783319584317
    ISBN (Print)9783319584294, 9783319864068
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 7 Sept 2017

    Publication series

    NameAdvancing Global Bioethics
    Volume6
    ISSN (Print)2212-652X
    ISSN (Electronic)2212-6538

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
    • Issues, ethics and legal aspects
    • Health(social science)
    • Health Policy

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