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Taking life and death seriously = bioethics from Japan /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Taking life and death seriously/ edited by Takao Takahashi.
Reminder of title:	bioethics from Japan /
other author:	Takahashi, Takao,
Published:	Amsterdam ;Elsevier JAI, : 2005.,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 335 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Bioethics - Japan. -
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1479-3709/8
ISBN:	9781849503433 (electronic bk.)

Taking life and death seriously = bioethics from Japan /
Taking life and death seriouslybioethics from Japan /[electronic resource] :edited by Takao Takahashi. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ;Elsevier JAI,2005. - 1 online resource (viii, 335 p.) :ill. - Advances in bioethics,v. 81479-3709 ;. - Advances in bioethics ;v. 6.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: a short history of bioethics in Japan / Takao Takahashi -- A synthesis of bioethics and environmental ethics founded upon theconcept of care: toward a Japanese approach to bioethics / Takao Takahashi -- On human dignity: Japan and the West / Susumu Nakayama -- Moralthinking 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: legaland 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 viewpointof cultural background of attending death / Toshiko Morita -- Cell death: its style and significance / Hideyuki Saya -- Thenatural funeral (shizensou) / Hiroaki Taguchi -- Medical business ethics: the HIV-tainted-blood affair in Japan / Tomohiro Tanaka -- MinamataDisease 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.

Full-scale Bioethics research began in America around 1970, a decadelater 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 particular, considerable discrepancies have been occurring between Japanese medical practices and the principles of Bioethicsoriginally imported from America. This has lead to the need for a closeinvestigation into the Japanese approach to Bioethics. Despite this however, there are currently only a few researchers studying the Japanese approach to Bioethics. This interdisciplinary anthology uniquely provides a significant examination of the Bioethics from Japan by considering Japanese viewsfrom various aspects, such as life and death, dignity, family and care. The authors of this volume believe that in establishing their own approach to Bioethics each country will increase the practicality of this discipline and, by doing so, will aid the search for the universal elements in Bioethics. The members of the Kumamoto University Bioethics Research Group have published a number of books on Bioethics in Japan over the past decade and in doing so have been preparing for the production ofthis anthology. The contributors of this volume are both current and former faculty members at Kumamoto University; a well-known institute for Minamata Disease and the volume contains essays written specifically in relation to this area of research.

ISBN: 9781849503433 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

809958
Bioethics
--Japan.

LC Class. No.: QH332 / .T35 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 174/.957

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 608

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