Study About The Thinking Of Chinese Medical Morals

The traditional Chinese medical morals is rooted in the soil of Chinese culture and philosophical thought, reflected in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine, and has a perfect theoretical system, rich ideological content, distinct theoretical features and unique theoretical values. This paper takes "traditional Chinese medical morals" as research subject and aims at making a complete grasp of traditional Chinese "medical morals", in order to demonstrate the Chinese theoretical form of "medical morals".In this paper, the Chapter One sorts the origin, formation, development and improvement track of traditional Chinese medical morals. By taking traditional thoughts and culture and traditional Chinese medicine as two major backgrounds, the important concepts of medical morals, characters of medical morals and ancient books and records of medical morals in various historical periods have been discussed and a generalizing summarization on the overall situation of traditional Chinese medical morals has been made on this basis, in order to have a more comprehensive understanding on the historical appearance of traditional Chinese medical morals. The Chapter Two reveals the theoretical foundation of traditional Chinese medical morals and shows that the traditional life philosophy dominated by Confucianism and Taoism is a profound foundation of traditional Chinese medical morals thought. For this purpose, a developing narrative has been made from the heaven concept, view of nature life, essence of life concept and value of life concept of traditional life philosophy, and the problem concerning why the traditional life philosophy can be regarded as the theoretical foundation of traditional Chinese medical morals thought has been further discussed from both historically and logically. The Chapter Three reveals the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medical morals and makes a re-sort on the theoretical content of traditional Chinese medical morals adherence to the own logical relationships of traditional Chinese medical morals, in order to get rid of the currently popular research model of framing and measuring the traditional Chinese medical morals thought by western normative ethics and restore the "true features" of traditional Chinese medical morals thought to a certain extent. This paper holds that the traditional Chinese medical morals is the main content revolving around physician morals, medical occupation morals, medical skills morals and doctor-patient ethics.by taking "Benevolence of Heaven and Earth" as its metaphysical foundation, "Benevolent Heart" as its humanity foundation and "Life Concept" as its theme in the theoretical system. The Chapter Four analyzes the theoretical features of the traditional Chinese medical morals and further deepens the knowledge and understanding of the traditional Chinese medical morals. This paper holds that the traditional Chinese medical morals thought mainly shows two basic features:the traditional Chinese medical morals links up the Taos of heaven, the Taos of humanbeing and the Taos of traditional Chinese medicine and forms the values system by taking "benevolence" as its core in the theoretical system; the traditional Chinese medical morals thought takes on the characteristics of virtue ethics. The Chapter Five evaluates the traditional Chinese medical morals from the significance and limitation aspects combined with the background of contemporary medical morals and bioethics. This paper holds that the spiritual essence of medical morals benevolence highlighted by the traditional Chinese medical morals has universal significance and value for the medical activities with the purpose of caring for life. For the research on medical morals, the theoretical model of the traditional Chinese medical morals indicates its significance in many aspects:the emphasis on virtue ethics of traditional Chinese medical morals grasps the foundation of medical morals, the traditional Chinese medical morals thought advocates the medical morals in view of "the human being" rather than simply from the point of view of "the people in occupations", which is beneficial for promoting the comprehensive development of physician individuals; the traditional Chinese medical morals thought gives overall consideration to virtue ethics and norms rather than just being partial to one side. At the same time, there are many theoretical limitations in the traditional Chinese medical morals, for instance, the medical skills are lack of independent values, certain aspects are over-idealized, etc.