Medical ethics in a multicultural society

Recognizing that the Western philosophical tradition is not the only starting point for normative analysis, the mixed features of quilt and mesh of such patchwork will become more apparent. Many of the modern bioethics textbooks believe that the most decisive moral struggle is between different Western moral philosophy schools. The students got a summary of potted plants from Aristotle, Mill and Kant. It seems as though the moral reflexes of various communities are not influenced by Hinduism, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism.

Unfortunately, many of the simplified labels obscure the complexities of various cultural and religious traditions that form moral reflections in various situations. Hidden content of words such as Jewish Christian ethics and Oriental and Western ideas far exceeds what is revealed by their large generalization. There is good reason to distinguish "local" areas such as Thailand, as one of the things born in Pocatello, Idaho, and another experience raised in Barcelona, ​​Cape Town, Kyoto, or Reykjavik. Moral world ", Korea, North Korea, Singapore, Japan, China 8

Many societies are increasingly diversified in their nature and the inevitable consequence of this is that clinicians can not mimic various moralities that are incompatible with the secular spirit that underlies Western biomedical clinical practice in various ways It is being exposed to ideals. In the United States, people may quote Buddhists, Shintoism, Confucianism, Hindus and even the ideals of Muslims to prohibit transplants of religious sacred or taboo organs among believers. The more society has racial and religious diversity, the more likely that doctor will face moral ideals and promises that limit or prevent harm reduction and prevention of unnecessary death.

This focuses on life science ethics and is working on accelerating the development of Chinese life science ethics system. It publishes the first ethical provisions for Chinese medical scientists and workers and the Declaration of the Chinese Medical Ethics Society 245 (1988). It also has a medical ethics rule committee 246 which is devoted to exploring and improving medical ethics. Under the cooperation of the Medical Ethics Society, regional medical ethics committees were established in the state and big cities. The norms and regulations drafted and promulgated by the Institute of Medical Ethics include the organizational rules of the Hospital Ethics Committee 247 (which led to the establishment of an ethics committee at many hospitals), and the use of high-tech ethics rules in medical applications, such as 248 .