Abstract
Jing-Bao Nie, Medical Ethics in China： A Transcultural Interpretation. London and New York： Routledge, 2011,272pp., ISBN： 9780415689496.Medical Ethics in China is a transcultural interpretation of Chinese and Western medical ethics. It is not a topical study of medical ethics in China, although Nie considers many issues in Chinese medical ethics such as truth-telling, informed consent, and abortion, as well as other related issues in ethics such as human rights and women＇s rights. Consistent with Nie＇s own description, the book offers a comparative analysis of Chinese and Western medical ethics, and an interpretation of Chinese philosophy and tradition, to expose misconceptions and to reveal similarities amid perceived differences as well as differences amid perceived similarities. Nie＇s methodology can be described as both comparative, insofar as it analyzes different cultures and different periods of time within particular cultures, and interpretative, insofar as it analyzes historical and contemporary Chinese texts from the Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist （Taoist） traditions. Nie＇s familiarity with both Chinese and Western philosophy and culture is evident throughout as he brings to bear hundreds of Chinese and Western sources in suDDort of his comparative and interpretative claims.