Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: A Confucian Critique

Jonathan K L CHAN

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58431-7_8

Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: A Confucian Critique

Jonathan K L CHAN^*

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights
Editors	Joseph Tham, Kai Man Kwan, Alberto Garcia
Publisher	Springer Cham
Pages	103-113
Number of pages	11
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319584317
ISBN (Print)	9783319584294, 9783319864068
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58431-7_8
Publication status	Published - 7 Sept 2017

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Name	Advancing Global Bioethics
Volume	6
ISSN (Print)	2212-652X
ISSN (Electronic)	2212-6538

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

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