MEDICAL ETHICS IN CHINA AND THE WEST

Course overview

This course fulfills the NCCAOM Ethics CEU course requirement. Both Chinese and Western medicines have ethical traditions going back literally thousands of years. It is amazing how closely these traditions paralleled each other in the past. This course examines these common ethical traditions and compares and contracts them with modern medical practices, which, regrettably, often diverge from the ethical underpinnings of our ancestors. By reminding ourselves of the ancients' wisdom, we modern practitioners get to benefit from the peace of mind, love, and kindheartedness which flow from the practice of their long and deeply considered ethical approach to medicine.