China's one-child policy, a policy without a future: Pitfalls of the "common good" argument and the authoritarian model

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 272-287

  Nie, Jing Bao ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Chinese authoritarian model; Common good; Ethics of population control; One child policy; Social engineering; State violence

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICS; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; INCOME; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

CHINA; COERCION; COMMUNISM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING POLICY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; POPULATION CONTROL; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 84902547170     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180113000881     Document Type: Article

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