Cultural values embodying universal norms: A critique of a popular assumption about cultures and human rights

Developing World Bioethics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 251-257

  Jing Bao, Nie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STEREOTYPY;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON BIOETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOETHICS; CHINA; CONFUCIANISM; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; GUIDELINES; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED NATIONS; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 24744458123     PISSN: 14718731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2005.00123.x     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. United Nations (UN). 1999. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. First adopted and proclaimed in 1948. New York. UN. Available at: http://www.un.org/ Overview/rights.html [accessed 11 July 2005].
2. United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 2005. Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. SHS/EST/05/CONF.204/3REV. Paris, 24 June 2005. UNESCO.
3. Ibid. Article 12.
4. For detailed discussions on the points presented here, see J-B. Nie. 2005. Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion, Lanham, ML. Rowman & Littlefield.
5. See in particular, Chapter 8: The Challenge of Cross-cultural Dialogue: Taking Seriously China's Internal Plurality;
6. J-B. Nie. Forthcoming. Medical Ethics in China: Major Traditions, Contemporary Issues and the Dialogue with the West. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press;
7. J-B. Nie. The Plurality of Chinese and American Medical Moralities: Toward an Interpretive Cross-Cultural Bioethics. Kennedy Inst Ethics J 2000; 10: 239-260;
8. J-B. Nie. Is Informed Consent Not Applicable to China?: Intellectual Flaws of the Cultural Difference Argument. Formos J Med Humanit 2000; 2: 67-74.
9. Available at: http://www.csmu.edu.tw/genedu/public_html/journal-2.htm [accessed on 4 July 2005] [the Chinese version was published in Medical Philosophy 2002; 6: 18-22];
10. J-B. Nie. Feminist Bioethics and its Language of Human Rights in the Chinese Context, In Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights and the Developing World. R. Tong, A. Donchin & S. Dodds, eds. Boulder, CO. Rowman & Littlefield. Publishers: 73-88.
11. See M. Svensson. 2002. Debating Human Rights in China: A Conceptual and Political History. Lanham, ML. Rowman & Littlefield;
12. S. Angle. 2002. Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
13. P.G. Lawren. 1998. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press.
14. See W.T. De Bary. 1998. Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press;
15. W.T. De Bary & W. Tu. eds. 1998. Confucianism and Human Rights. New York. Columbia University Press.
16. About this point, and for the most insightful work ever written on Chinese traditional ethics, see H. Roetz. 1993. Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age. Albany, NY. State University of New York Press.
17. See R. Macklin. 1999. Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine. New York. Oxford University Press.
18. S.C. Angele. 2002. Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.