Lee Shui-chuen
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Lee Shui-chuen (Chinese: 李瑞全; born 1948) is a Chinese bioethicist in the contemporary Confucian tradition of ethical thought.[1][2] A professor and a former director of the Graduate Institute of Philosophy of National Central University, he received his B.A. and M.Phil. in philosophy in The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of the renowned contemporary New Confucianist professors Tang Chun-I and Mou Tsung-san. He received his PhD with the Graduate Institute of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, US.
Lee has taught at various universities, including Tunghai University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and National Central University. Since 1998 he has been the chief investigator of a research group of the ELSI problem of human genome project. In order to promote studies and research in bioethics in Taiwan, he organized a number of international conferences on bioethics.
Associations
Lee is the founding member, board member, and president (2006–2008) of the Taiwan Bioethics Association. He has served as the vice president of the Chinese Professional Association of Bioethics and as vice president of the Asian Bioethics Association. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the National Central University Journal of Humanities.
