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Chinese Medical Ethics and Euthanasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Ren-Zong Qiu
Ren-Zong Qiu
Affiliation:
Bioethics at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
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Chinese medicine has a history of at least 2,000 years. The first explicit literature on medical ethics did not appear until the seventh century when a physician named Sun Simiao wrote a famous treatise titled “On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians” in his work The Important Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold. In this treatise, later called The Chinese Hippocratic Oath, Sun Simiao required the physician to develop first a sense of compassion and piety, and then to make a commitment to try to save every living creature, to treat every patient on equal grounds, and to avoid seeking wealth because of his expertise.

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Special Section: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Murder or Mercy?
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993 , pp. 69 - 76
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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