Title: How Should We Build Chinese Bioethics?
Lecturer: Ruiping Fan (Chair Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong)
Chairperson: Xudong Fang (Professor of Chinese Philosophy, East China Normal University)
Date: 9:30 am, September 25th, 2017 (Monday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
There is no such thing as universal bioethics. Culture-based bioethics is promising. This presentation explores what possible conditions a tenable Chinese culture-based bioethics should have and how its moral imaginations should be expanded in contrast with liberal-individualist-culture-based bioethics. The presentation will discuss a few prominent issues in international bioethics to illustrate the character and prospect of Chinese culture-based bioethics.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Ruiping Fan, BM, Ph.D., is Chair Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, Chinese Medical Ethics, Co-Editor of International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine, and Editor of Asian Studies in the Philosophy of Medicine & Bioethics book series. His research focuses on Confucian bioethics, Chinese and comparative philosophy, and ethics and public policy. In addition to over 140 journal articles and book chapters (
