Chinese Medical Ethics

CME-29-01-2025-3155
Chinese Medical Ethics

Moral rationality and practical effectiveness of prioritized incentives for organ donor families

In 2024, the Regulations on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation, which came into force in China, introduced a new norm recognizing the prioritized rights and interests of close family members of organ donors in organ transplantation sorting. Based on the new regulations, the moral rationality and practical effectiveness issues of continued family prioritized incentives were explored. On the issue of moral rationality, this paper first analyzed the fairness and altruism issues of family prioritized incentives, as well as pointed out that the moral basis of family prioritized incentives

CME-29-01-2025-3154
Chinese Medical Ethics

Research progress of presepsin in the early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis

Fan Ruiping is one of the earlier scholars in the Chinese academic community who pointed out the inherent difficulties in the thought of liberal equal healthcare. Based on criticism, he has constructed a Confucian alternative, which has far-reaching theoretical and practical significance. To break through the constraints of the liberal framework and reconstruct Confucian ethical resources, another just social order of justice needed to be fundamentally envisaged, which is grounded in family responsibilities and characterized by a network of mutual support and care as the common good. Based

CME-29-01-2025-3153
Chinese Medical Ethics

Sexual tools rather than perfect partners : a reconsideration of sex robots

In Chapter 11 “sex robots” of the book Contemporary Medicine and Confucian Thought, through the review of articles by three scholars, Fan Ruiping proposed his view on sex robots from a Confucian perspective, that is, sex robots cannot and should not be regarded as perfect partners for humans. This viewpoint may face a series of challenges. Challenge one : in the future, robots with realistic human appearances may evolve to a stage where they can not only satisfy users’ sexual needs but also provide emotional value and do household chores. Isn’t this kind of robot tha

CME-29-01-2025-3152
Chinese Medical Ethics

Exploring ethical and legal education in the off-label drugs use during residency training

The off-label drugs use is a common practice in clinical medicine, which has both medical ethical legitimacy and ethical confusion, as well as hidden medical and legal risks. Appropriate the off-label drugs use can alleviate patients’ pain, otherwise endangering their safety. The new Physician Law establishes legal norms for the off-label drugs use. The medical ethics and health law knowledge learned by resident physicians during their undergraduate studies all are basic knowledge and general principles, while the legal and ethical knowledge about the off-label drugs use is insufficie

CME-29-01-2025-3151
Chinese Medical Ethics

Methodology dilemma of Western bioethics and transcendent approach based on Confucian bioethics

Western bioethics, with its theoretical basis in individualism, is essentially a form of universalist ethics that makes it difficult to respond to the complexities of moral life. Scholars represented by Engelhardt and MacIntyre have profoundly reflected on universalist ethics from the perspective of moral pluralism, but they have not been able to fundamentally resolve the disputes. Grasping the theoretical lineage of the controversy between universalism and particularism can provide an important reference for the construction of bioethics based on Confucianism in contemporary China. Further

Chinese Medical Ethics