Qiu Renzong

Qiu Renzong (c. 1933) is a Chinese bioethicist. He is a senior research fellow emeritus at China's Institute of Philosophy, and chair of the Academic Committee at the Centre for Bioethics at Peking Union Medical College.[1] China Daily writes that he is regarded as the scholar who 30 years ago introduced bioethics to China.[2]

Qiu published a paper in 2002 arguing for the recognition in China of animal rights, and introducing the idea of speciesism. He argued in favour of a gradualist approach to the recognition of rights, rejecting the abolitionist approach as unrealistic. His paper was criticized by Zhao Nanuyan, a professor at Tsinghua University, who wrote that animal rights arguments are foreign ideas and are "anti-humanity."[3]

Qiu was awarded the 2009 UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science[1] and he shared the Hastings Center’s Henry Knowles Beecher Award with Solomon R. Benatar in 2011.[4]

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  1. 1 2 "Ethics prize goes to Chinese scientist", SciDevNet, 12 January 2010.
  2. ↑ Qi, Xiao. "A matter of life and death", China Daily, 10 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Li, Peter J. "China: Animal rights and animal welfare" in Bekoff, Marc. Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 2009, pp. 119–120.
  4. ↑ http://www.thehastingscenter.org/who-we-are/service-to-bioethics/henry-knowles-beecher-award/


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