Why is Chinese bioethics important?
Demographics In the last 2 decades, slightly over 1 million ethnic Chinese from the Far East have settled in Canada. In the 1980s Cantonese-speaking Chinese, primarily from Hong Kong, made up the majority of the immigrants. In the last decade Mandarin-speaking Chinese from Taiwan and Mainland China have rapidly grown in number. As people from this population enter the health care system in Canada, it is crucial that health care professionals understand their cultural perspectives. Although Chinese immigrants from these 3 geographical areas have much in common, subcultural differences between and among these groups add to the need for health care providers to recognize the diversity within Chinese culture and avoid broad-based assumptions. Conceptions of illness All cultures generate explanatory models that attempt, either explicitly or implicitly, to account for the phenomenon of illness and its place in human existence. Such models undertake to define what a disease is, how it occurs,
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