Qiu Renzong (邱仁宗, c. 1933) is a Chinesebioethicist. He is a senior research fellow emeritus at China's Institute of Philosophy, and chair of the Academic Committee at the Centre for Bioethics atPeking 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 ofanimal rights, and introducing the idea ofspeciesism. He argued in favour of agradualist approach to the recognition of rights, rejecting theabolitionist approach as unrealistic. His paper was criticized by Zhao Nanyuan, a professor atTsinghua University, who wrote that animal rights arguments are foreign ideas and are "anti-humanity."^[3]

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

• Bioethics: Asian Perspectives: A Quest for Moral Diversity. Springer, 2004.

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