Truth Telling in Medicine: The Confucian View

摘要: Truth-telling to competent patients is widely affirmed as a cardinal moral and biomedical obligation in contemporary Western medical practice. In contrast, Chinese ethics remains committed hiding the truth well lying when necessary achieve family's view of best interests patient. This essay intends provide an account framing commitments that would both justify physician deception have it function way authentically grounded familist concerns Confucianism. It reflects on conditions possibilities for sustaining Confucian understanding truth-telling consent mainland China.