Medical Individualism or Medical Familism? A Critical Analysis of China's New Guidelines for Informed Consent: The Basic Norms of the Documentation of the Medical Record

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom)

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 371-386

  Bian, Lin ^a  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Confucian Chinese culture; informed consent; medical familism; medical individualism

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CONFUCIANISM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHINA; CONFUCIANISM; CULTURE; DOCUMENTATION; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATIONS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MORALS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84940189248     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: 17445019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhv016     Document Type: Article

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