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Reflections on the Dignity of Guan Zhong: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Liberal Notions of Suicide

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  1. Department of Philosophy and Center for Bioethics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

    George Khushf

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  1. Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

    Ruiping Fan

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Khushf, G. (1999). Reflections on the Dignity of Guan Zhong: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Liberal Notions of Suicide. In: Fan, R. (eds) Confucian Bioethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46867-0_5

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