Micollier Evelyne. (2021). Medical ethics and therapeutic knowledge in China : a perspective on historical foundations, encounters, internationalisation and co-construction. Journal International de Bioéthique et d'Ethique des Sciences, 32 (3), 15-24. ISSN 2608-1008.
Titre du document
Medical ethics and therapeutic knowledge in China : a perspective on historical foundations, encounters, internationalisation and co-construction
Année de publication
2021
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Micollier Evelyne
Source
Journal International de Bioéthique et d'Ethique des Sciences, 2021,
32 (3), 15-24 ISSN 2608-1008
In the Chinese context, past and present encounters between several medical traditions have transformed the health-care system including medical ethics. As a result, actual ethics show both inherited 'Chinese' and international characteristics. Health-related ideas, practices and experiences offer a plural landscape. In post-Mao China (Reform Era from 1979 on), medical sciences developed within the wider framework of social and economic transition while China gained influence in R&D, basic sciences research and technology. Two sets of ethics principles - one from Late Imperial China, another from the 1980s, were selected: both of them reveal 'historical turns' in medical ethics, Chinese medicine and the broader health-related field in line with drastic changes in Chinese society including the transformation of values and norms. The chapter is organized as follows: the two mentioned historical sets and their situated meanings are discussed in regard to changes and encounters. The situation in 2000s globalizing China - regarding Chinese medicine related ethics, and the process of internationalization and of (co)construction of knowledge - is then examined. In order to facilitate the reader's understanding, details about the selected sets of principles are indicated at the end of the main text.
Plan de classement
Sociologie et anthropologie de la santé [056SOCSAN]
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Histoire [112HISTO]
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Politique scientifique et sociologie de la science [116RESCI]
