Medicine is a humane art. The basic principles of professional ethics in Chinese medicine

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Zhang, Daqing ^a   Cheng, Zhifan ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; RELIGION; ALTRUISM; BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMANISM; IDEOLOGY; MEDICINE; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY;

BUDDHISM; CHINA; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HISTORY, MODERN 1601-; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; ALTRUISM; BENEFICENCE; CODES OF ETHICS; COMMUNISM; CONFUCIANISM; ECONOMICS; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HISTORY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANISM; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICINE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGNOSIS; RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIETIES; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; VIRTUES;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS;

EID: 0034221539     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3527656     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. "Rites of the Zhou Dynasty," in Huang Kan's Notes of Thirteen Chinese Classics (Shanghai: Shanghai Ancient Books Press, 1983).
2. P. Unschuld, Medical Ethics in Imperial China (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979), pp. 5-10.
3. The Canon, the full title of which is The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, is considered the "Bible" of Chinese medicine. It consists of two parts: "Canon of Medicine" and "Miraculous Pivot." The latter was basically a classic on acupuncture.
4. The earliest noted physician (about 500 B.C.E.), Bianque was good at various subjects in medicine, and skilled in diagnosis and treatment, especially in pulse-taking and acupuncture. To him were ascribed medical works such as The Internal Classic of Bianque and The External Classic of Bianque, all of which have been lost. Bocong Li, On Bianque and the School of Bianque (Xian: Shanxi Science and Technology Press, 1990);
5. Qian Sima, Records of History: Biography of Bianque and Canggong.
6. Miraculous Pivot (Beijing: Peoples Health Press, 1963).
7. Zhongjing Zhang, A Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases (Beijing: Peoples Health Press, 1963).
8. Mencius (Shanghai: Shanghai Ancient Books Press, reprinted 1991), p. 34.
9. Simiao Sun, Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold (Beijing: People's Health Press, reprinted 1982), p. 476.
10. Tingxian Gong, Famous Physician Addresses on Medical Ethics, ed. Yimo Zhou (Changsha: Hunan Science and Technology Press, 1983), p. 212.
11. Tianchen Li, Medical Men in Shichuan Province, ed. Chen Xianfu, ed. (Chengdu: Shichuan People's Press, 1981), p. 58.
12. Boxiong Fei, On Recipes (Beijing: Printing House for Old Medical Books, reprinted 1987), p. 1.
13. Fengbing Yu, "Self Admonition," Chinese Journal of Medicine vol. 1, no. 1 (1915): 7.
14. Guobing Song, Medical Ethics (Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1933).
15. "Ethical Standards for Medical Personnel and Its Implementation," in Benfu Li, Medical Ethics, (Bejing: Peking Union Medical College and Beijing Medical University Press, 1996), pp. 41-2.