CHINA: BIOETHICS, TRUST, AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE MARKET
Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 96 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
ASIAN STUDIES IN BIOETHICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE 6 Series Editor Ruiping Fan, Department of Public & Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Editorial Advisory Board Kazumasa Hoshino, Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan Shui Chuen Lee, National Central University, Chung-li, Taiwan Ping-Cheung Lo, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ren-Zong Qiu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
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CHINA: BIOETHICS, TRUST, AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE MARKET Edited by
JULIA TAO City University of Hong Kong, China
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Acknowledgments
On behalf of all the contributors, I wish to express deep appreciation to the Governance in Asia Research Centre (GARC) of the City University of Hong Kong for its support and financial assistance to the research project “Health Care, Market, Morality, and Resources of Traditional Culture,” from which the papers in this volume are derived. Appreciation should also be conveyed to the Institute of Medical Humanities, Shandong University, Jinan, PRC, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, who were co-sponsors of the research as well as co-organizers with GARC of an international conference based on this project on 27–28 June 2006 at the Institute of Medical Humanities of Shandong University, and a follow-up conference on “The Role and the Challenges of the Market in Health Care Reform: Cross-cultural Perspectives” held at City University of Hong Kong on 2 July 2005. The project team is deeply indebted to Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. who has been a prime mover and an invaluable source of inspiration to the project. The support and advice offered by Professor Xiaoyang Chen and Professor Yongfu Cao of the Institute of Medical Humanities, Shandong University, in the implementation of the research and organization of the international conference in Jinan were germane to the success enjoyed by the project. We are also very grateful to Dr. Jeremy Garrett, Dr. Aaron Hinkley, and Ms Virginia Chan for their professional assistance to the project and to the preparation of this book manuscript for publication. A final note of appreciation also goes to Lakshmi Praba. A and to Springer for their excellent support in the production of this book volume China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market.
Julia Tao, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration Director Governance in Asia Research Centre City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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