Foreword by Robert Veatch,  Introduction: The Search for a Transcultural Bioethics  Part 1: Beyond Stereotypes and Stereotyping 1. Communitarian China vs. Individualistic West: a Popular Myth and its Roots  2. The Fallacy of Dichotomizing Others  3. China as the Radical other of the West, or a Misconstruction of Foucault: Sexual Excess as a Cause of Disease in China and the United States  4. Excursion: 'False Friends' in Cross-Cultural Understanding, or a Misjudgement of Needham: Refuting the Claim that the Ancient Chinese Described the Circulation of the Blood  Part 2: Truths of Cultures  5. Taking China's Internal Plurality Seriously  6. The Complexity of Cultural Differences: The Forgotten Chinese Tradition of Medical Truth-Telling  7.

The 'Cultural Differences' Arguement and its Misconceptions: The Return of Medical Truth-Telling in China  8. Is Informed Consent Not Applicable in China? Further Intellectual Flaws of the 'Cultural Differences' Arguement  Part 3: Cultural Norms Embodying Universal Values  9. Human Rights as a Chinese Value: A Chinese Defence and Critque of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics  10. Women's Rights in the Chinese Context : Toward a Chinese Feminist Bioethics  Part 4: Chinese Wisdom for Today  11. After Cheng (Sincerity or Truthfulness): The Professional Ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine  12. Medicine as the Heart of Humanity and the Physician as a General  13. Exploring the Core of Humanity: A Chinese-Western Dialogue on Personhood  14: Beyond Individualism and Communitarianism: A Yin-Yang Model on the Ethics of Health Promotion (With Kirk L. Smith)  15.

Conclusions: Toward the Uncertain Future  16. Epilogue: Thus Spoke Hai Ruo (The God of the North Sea).