Taking life and death seriously bioethics from Japan /

Full-scale Bioethics research began in America around 1970, a decade later America introduced it into Japan. More recently Japanese researchers have realised the growing necessity to evaluate Bioethics more objectively. The principles and policies concerning Bioethics differ between countries. In pa...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Takahashi, Takao, 1948-
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
Έκδοση:1st ed.
Σειρά:Advances in bioethics ; v. 8
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction: a short history of bioethics in Japan / Takao Takahashi
  • A synthesis of bioethics and environmental ethics founded upon the concept of care: toward a Japanese approach to bioethics / Takao Takahashi
  • On human dignity: Japan and the West / Susumu Nakayama
  • Moral thinking about the embryo-fetus period: reconsidering the problems of identity and existence / Hideyuki Yahata
  • Changes of bioethical perspective of Japanese clinical geneticists about repro-genetics during 1995-2001 / Eri Shinoki, Ichiro Matsuda
  • Competency testing in medical and psychiatric practice: legal and psychological concepts and dilemmas / Toshinori Kitamura, Fusako Kitamura
  • Care for the elderly in Japan: past, present and future / Tadashi Saga
  • Nursing of dying patients: from the viewpoint of cultural background of attending death / Toshiko Morita
  • Cell death: its style and significance / Hideyuki Saya
  • The natural funeral (shizensou) / Hiroaki Taguchi
  • Medical business ethics: the HIV-tainted-blood affair in Japan / Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Minamata Disease as "soul": an uncertain "alternative future" in the modern Japanese state / Katsuhiko Keida
  • The global lessons of Minamata Disease: an introduction to Minamata studies / Masazumi Harada.