Ritualized relational autonomy in Chinese end-of-life care: balancing Confucian benevolence and individual rights
This article develops a hypothesis-and-theory framework for ethical tensions in contemporary Chinese end-of-life care and family mourning. It examines the relationship between Confucian ren’ai (benevolence), expressed through embodied familial care, and modern rights-based commitments to bodily autonomy, dignity, and i...