Chinese Medical Ethics

CME-29-01-2025-3148
Chinese Medical Ethics

The Confucian ethical loadedness of contemporary medicine : a response to commentators

Cheng Yu is a significant yet underexplored figure in modern Chinese history. His ideas on Confucianism were closely linked to three pivotal moments of crisis in modern Chinese history: The First Sino-Japanese War, the May Fourth Movement, and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The First Sino-Japanese War led to the Qing government’s Hundred Days Reform, initiated by Kang Youwei in 1898. When the Reform failed, Cheng, the secretary of Timothy Richard, assisted Kang in his escape and became Kang’s disciple. In 1906, he traveled to Japan to investigate the development of industries, ma

CME-29-01-2025-3147
Chinese Medical Ethics

Family-oriented,the way of heaven,and decisions on life and death:a review of Contemporary Medicine and Confucian Thought

Fan Ruiping’s Contemporary Medicine and Confucian Thought is the latest masterpiece in promoting the construction of Chinese bioethics. His Confucian bioethics advocates “family-oriented” and “the way as an aspiration”. In terms of the family-oriented medical decision-making mechanism, it is believed to encompass four elements, including family-shared deliberation, reaching consensus, applying practical wisdom, and conforming to the way of heaven. Taking decisions on life and death (such as whether to euthanize or not) as an example, applying practical wisdom a

CME-29-01-2025-3146
Chinese Medical Ethics

The influence of medical students’family and elderly elders’living styles on their ethical cognition of elderly care

All societies are going through a longevity revolution. Inflating the elderly’s age group will present many challenges to the healthcare system. A better health workforce is needed to meet this demand. Little is known about the knowledge and attitude of medical and nursing students toward geriatric care in Saudi Arabia. This study aims to explore medical and nursing students’ knowledge about aging, and their attitude toward caring for older adults. A cross-sectional study using two surveys: the fact on aging quiz to assess knowledge and the UCLA geriatric attitude scale to evalu

CME-29-01-2025-3145
Chinese Medical Ethics

Modern nursing practice from the perspective of confucian ethics and its implications—book review of Contemporary Medicine and Confucian Thought

This paper examines the integration of Confucian ethics into modern nursing practice and its implications, offering a review of the book Contemporary Medicine and Confucian Thought by Professor Fan Ruiping. The book addresses six key topics medical decision-making, healthcare systems, medical technology, organ transplantation, mental health, and elderly care. It highlights the conflicts between individual autonomy emphasized in Western ethics and the family-centered approach of Confucianism, especially in clinical decision-making. Through case studies and ethical discussions, the book sugge

CME-29-01-2025-3144
Chinese Medical Ethics

Interactive presentation and emotional empowerment of life education rituals:using“silent mentors”in medical universities and colleges as carrier

Online mental health communities may provide new opportunities for rehabilitation for people with mental illness, so it is important to understand the factors that influence the continued use of online mental health communities by people with mental illness. From the perspective of empowerment, based on the theory of health self-efficacy and expectation confirmation, this study explored the mediating role of health self-efficacy and expectation confirmation in the empowerment process of patients in online mental health communities and users’ intention to continue using online mental h

Chinese Medical Ethics