ABSTRACT
In recent years, there have been attempts to delineate a Confucian bioethics. Such attempts go further than commenting on specific bioethical issues from a Confucian perspective. They provide a general framework for responding to a variety of bioethical issues. But different writers have reconstructed Confucian bioethics in different ways. For example, Lee Shui-chuen regards Confucian bioethics as basically universalist in nature, whereas Fan Ruiping regards Confucian bioethics as a species of communitarian ethics.
