This volume provides a unique perspective on the market reforms currently taking place in Chinese health care. The authors come to grips with the changes taking place in Chinese health care and its effect on the traditional doctor-patient relationship, but also its positive effects on the availability and quality of health care particularly in urban areas. In doing so the various authors wrestle with moral, political and social issues deeply ingrained in Chinese culture as well as the perceived practical and moral difficulties associated with the change to a market oriented economy especially in area of health care. This volume should be of particular interest to bioethicists, those interested in contemporary Chinese philosophy, and of course those working in health care policy, Chinese policy, comparative health care policy, or any combination thereof.

Introduction: Trust, the Market, and Bioethics.- The Bioethics of Trust.- Chinese Health Care Policy: An Introduction to the Moral Challenges.- Health Care Policy in China.- Towards a Confucian Approach to Health Care Allocation in China: A Dynamic Geography.- Trust is the Core of the Doctor-Patient Relationship: From the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medical Ethics.- Medical Resources, the Market, and the Development of Private-Run Hospitals in China.- China, Beware: What American Health Care Has to Learn from Singapore.- Trust, Profit, Scarcity, and Integrity: Confucian Thought and Traditional Morality.- Confucian Trust, Market and Health Care Reform.- The Pursuit of an Efficient, Sustainable Health Care System in China.- A Reconstructionist Confucian Approach to Chinese Health Care.- The Market and Health Care.- Health Care Services, Markets, and the Confucian Moral Tradition: Establishing a Humanistic Health Care Market.- Markets, Trust, and the Nurturing of a Culture of Responsibility: Implications for Health Care Policy in China.- Fostering Professional Virtue in the Market: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Chinese Health Care Reform.- Looking to the Future of China: Can Confucius Guide the Health Care Market?.- On the Reform of Health Care Reform.- Is Singapore's Healthcare System Morally Problematic?.