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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im)Possibility of Global Bioethics pp 71–88Cite as

The Tension between Biomedical Technology and Confucian Values

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Since the Asian economic crisis and the new Balkan War, the world has become much more uncertain. It is hard for me to predict how the third millennium will be, and also how the bioethics of the third millennium will be, so I limit my paper to two issues: the value of traditional cultures in the 21st century and the third millennium, and the possibility of the pursuit of global bioethics or universal ethics.

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  1. Program in Bioethics, Centre for Applied Ethics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

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Qiu, RZ. (2002). The Tension between Biomedical Technology and Confucian Values. In: Po-Wah, J.T.L. (eds) Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im)Possibility of Global Bioethics. Philosophy of Medicine, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1195-1_5

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