Ming-Jui Yeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 816449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ming-Jui Yeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ming-Jui |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeh |
| SIGNATURE | YEH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0748-9462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why we must face our past
This article proposes a cosmopolitan theory of global health ethics based on reconciliatory solidarity at both local and global levels. The proposed theory provides the ethical and empirical grounds for the moral imperative of global health solidarity that is often called on today. Reconciliatory solidarity requires that a people/nation-state address the historical injustice and the legacies of political violence within its boundary, with the soc…
Eighty years of postwar multilateralism
Founded on the postwar conviction that health is 'fundamental to the attainment of peace' and that its enjoyment constitutes 'a fundamental human right', the WHO has embodied the UN's ambition to constitutionalise solidarity through law. Nearly eight decades later, this normative order faces a profound legitimacy crisis. The tension between sovereignty and universality has reemerged, and the ethical foundations of global health law are increasing…
Sacrifice for the mandate of heaven? Regression discontinuity of death penalty execution in Taiwan
The death penalty enjoys overwhelmingly cross-partisan support among Taiwanese citizens. Politicians, mass media actors, and anti-death-penalty activists all believe that death penalty executions boost the president’s approval. As a result, Taiwanese presidents are motivated to strategically execute prisoners, trying to improve their approval rate. To examine this myth, we exploit data from a nationally representative survey conducted in 2012; si…
Territory and solidarity
A well-defined territorial boundary is essential for the design and implementation of social policies, as it defines the scope of the political community. In states where territorial boundaries are contested, the contours of sovereignty remains ambiguous. This paper studies the effects of contested perceptions of territory on welfare states. The paper distinguishes between institutional solidarity (support for formal welfare arrangements) and int…
Betting against pandemics
Among measures tackling the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the selling of private insurance policies covering individual infection is overlooked by the ethics literature. To record the “COVID Claimania” in Taiwan and to assess its ethical implications, we collected 38 policies from 10 insurers sold between January 2020 and May 2022 and found that their risk calculation of the COVID‐19 prevalence ranged from 0.5% to 11.08%. In reality, the prev…
The Ordinary Virtue and Moral Significance of Health Systems
The ordinary virtue of health systems is to secure some form of equitable access to health services for all in pursuit of the ideal of universal health coverage, which would sometimes be considered an integral part of the overall institutional arrangements protecting the human right to health. The history of human-established health systems has come close to an end. In this article, I use the Taiwanese health system as an illustrative case to dem…
Public attitudes towards government’s role in unemployment provision in three East Asian countries
Public support for unemployment provision is essential to provide political legitimacy for welfare policy arrangements and yet it is understudied in East Asian welfare states. In contrast with the proposed unfavourable attitudes towards welfare among East Asian countries from the developmental/productivist perspectives, the study suggests socio-demographic and ideological differences in public attitudes towards the role of government in unemploym…
Saving unwanted children
Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan
This article aims to untangle the puzzle of why the childcare sector often allocates the least of responsibility for care to the state in societies with Confucian social ethos compared with the healthcare and long‐term care sector. Using Taiwan as an illustrative case, the article offers an overview of the three care sectors and an in‐depth analysis of the development of the childcare sector. We argue that due to the diminished bureaucratic autho…
Intergenerational contract in Ageing Democracies
From security to solidarity
“We are all in this together”. Political leaders, research communities, and civil society organisations have often made this statement during the COVID-pandemic in their calls for global and social solidarity. The statement has two layers of connotation. Empirically, a scenario exists in which we are facing a common threat, despite the unequal distribution of burden [...]
Solidarity in Pandemics, Mandatory Vaccination, and Public Health Ethics
Mandatory vaccination has been a highly disputed policy for tackling infectious diseases. Here I argue that a universal mandatory vaccination policy for the general public against the COVID-19 pandemic is ethically preferable when grounded in the concept of solidarity, which is defined by Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx as an enacted commitment to a relevant respect recognized by a group of individuals with equal moral status. This approach is c…
Participated without consent
Compared with data that is initially collected for research purposes, the mandatory authorization of a government database for secondary use deserves greater scrutiny because it consists of information that is collected initially for administrative purposes. Using the case of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) Database as an example, this paper analyzes the ethical issues that emerge when the research participants are “participated” in stud…
Long-term care system in Taiwan
This paper reviews the past development of the publicly funded long-term care (LTC) system and aims to advance further discussion of LTC in Taiwan. The Ten-year Long-Term Care Plan 2.0 introduced in 2017 calls for a major reform of a publicly funded LTC system in Taiwan. The reform expands on the previous universal tax-based LTC system, allowing for more comprehensive and accessible subsidies on LTC services. This paper provides a brief overview …
Protecting Universal Health Coverage in Non–United Nations Member States
"Protecting Universal Health Coverage in Non–United Nations Member States: Lessons From Taiwan." , 109(8), pp. 1101–1102
Solidarity in Pandemics, Mandatory Vaccination, and Public Health Ethics
Mandatory vaccination has been a highly disputed policy for tackling infectious diseases. Here I argue that a universal mandatory vaccination policy for the general public against the COVID-19 pandemic is ethically preferable when grounded in the concept of solidarity, which is defined by Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx as an enacted commitment to a relevant respect recognized by a group of individuals with equal moral status. This approach is c…
Territory and solidarity
A well-defined territorial boundary is essential for the design and implementation of social policies, as it defines the scope of the political community. In states where territorial boundaries are contested, the contours of sovereignty remains ambiguous. This paper studies the effects of contested perceptions of territory on welfare states. The paper distinguishes between institutional solidarity (support for formal welfare arrangements) and int…
Long-term care system in Taiwan
This paper reviews the past development of the publicly funded long-term care (LTC) system and aims to advance further discussion of LTC in Taiwan. The Ten-year Long-Term Care Plan 2.0 introduced in 2017 calls for a major reform of a publicly funded LTC system in Taiwan. The reform expands on the previous universal tax-based LTC system, allowing for more comprehensive and accessible subsidies on LTC services. This paper provides a brief overview …
Protecting Universal Health Coverage in Non–United Nations Member States
"Protecting Universal Health Coverage in Non–United Nations Member States: Lessons From Taiwan." , 109(8), pp. 1101–1102
Participated without consent
Compared with data that is initially collected for research purposes, the mandatory authorization of a government database for secondary use deserves greater scrutiny because it consists of information that is collected initially for administrative purposes. Using the case of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) Database as an example, this paper analyzes the ethical issues that emerge when the research participants are “participated” in stud…
Long-term care system in Taiwan
This paper reviews the past development of the publicly funded long-term care (LTC) system and aims to advance further discussion of LTC in Taiwan. The Ten-year Long-Term Care Plan 2.0 introduced in 2017 calls for a major reform of a publicly funded LTC system in Taiwan. The reform expands on the previous universal tax-based LTC system, allowing for more comprehensive and accessible subsidies on LTC services. This paper provides a brief overview …
Intergenerational contract in Ageing Democracies
From security to solidarity
“We are all in this together”. Political leaders, research communities, and civil society organisations have often made this statement during the COVID-pandemic in their calls for global and social solidarity. The statement has two layers of connotation. Empirically, a scenario exists in which we are facing a common threat, despite the unequal distribution of burden [...]
Solidarity in Pandemics, Mandatory Vaccination, and Public Health Ethics
Mandatory vaccination has been a highly disputed policy for tackling infectious diseases. Here I argue that a universal mandatory vaccination policy for the general public against the COVID-19 pandemic is ethically preferable when grounded in the concept of solidarity, which is defined by Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx as an enacted commitment to a relevant respect recognized by a group of individuals with equal moral status. This approach is c…
Saving unwanted children
Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan
This article aims to untangle the puzzle of why the childcare sector often allocates the least of responsibility for care to the state in societies with Confucian social ethos compared with the healthcare and long‐term care sector. Using Taiwan as an illustrative case, the article offers an overview of the three care sectors and an in‐depth analysis of the development of the childcare sector. We argue that due to the diminished bureaucratic autho…
Betting against pandemics
Among measures tackling the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the selling of private insurance policies covering individual infection is overlooked by the ethics literature. To record the “COVID Claimania” in Taiwan and to assess its ethical implications, we collected 38 policies from 10 insurers sold between January 2020 and May 2022 and found that their risk calculation of the COVID‐19 prevalence ranged from 0.5% to 11.08%. In reality, the prev…
The Ordinary Virtue and Moral Significance of Health Systems
The ordinary virtue of health systems is to secure some form of equitable access to health services for all in pursuit of the ideal of universal health coverage, which would sometimes be considered an integral part of the overall institutional arrangements protecting the human right to health. The history of human-established health systems has come close to an end. In this article, I use the Taiwanese health system as an illustrative case to dem…
Public attitudes towards government’s role in unemployment provision in three East Asian countries
Public support for unemployment provision is essential to provide political legitimacy for welfare policy arrangements and yet it is understudied in East Asian welfare states. In contrast with the proposed unfavourable attitudes towards welfare among East Asian countries from the developmental/productivist perspectives, the study suggests socio-demographic and ideological differences in public attitudes towards the role of government in unemploym…
Sacrifice for the mandate of heaven? Regression discontinuity of death penalty execution in Taiwan
The death penalty enjoys overwhelmingly cross-partisan support among Taiwanese citizens. Politicians, mass media actors, and anti-death-penalty activists all believe that death penalty executions boost the president’s approval. As a result, Taiwanese presidents are motivated to strategically execute prisoners, trying to improve their approval rate. To examine this myth, we exploit data from a nationally representative survey conducted in 2012; si…
Territory and solidarity
A well-defined territorial boundary is essential for the design and implementation of social policies, as it defines the scope of the political community. In states where territorial boundaries are contested, the contours of sovereignty remains ambiguous. This paper studies the effects of contested perceptions of territory on welfare states. The paper distinguishes between institutional solidarity (support for formal welfare arrangements) and int…
Why we must face our past
This article proposes a cosmopolitan theory of global health ethics based on reconciliatory solidarity at both local and global levels. The proposed theory provides the ethical and empirical grounds for the moral imperative of global health solidarity that is often called on today. Reconciliatory solidarity requires that a people/nation-state address the historical injustice and the legacies of political violence within its boundary, with the soc…
Eighty years of postwar multilateralism
Founded on the postwar conviction that health is 'fundamental to the attainment of peace' and that its enjoyment constitutes 'a fundamental human right', the WHO has embodied the UN's ambition to constitutionalise solidarity through law. Nearly eight decades later, this normative order faces a profound legitimacy crisis. The tension between sovereignty and universality has reemerged, and the ethical foundations of global health law are increasing…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Solidarity (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works)