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245	0	0	_aTaking life and death seriously _h[electronic resource] : _bbioethics from Japan / _cedited by Takao Takahashi.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aAmsterdam ; _aBoston : _bElsevier JAI, _c2005.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 335 p.) : _bill.
490	1		_aAdvances in bioethics, _x1479-3709 ; _vv. 8
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aFull-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 particular, considerable discrepancies have been occurring between Japanese medical practices and the principles of Bioethics originally imported from America. This has lead to the need for a close investigation 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 views from 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 of this 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aBioethics _zJapan.
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650		7	_aMedical _xEthics. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aTakahashi, Takao, _d1948-
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tTaking life and death seriously. _b1st ed. _dAmsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2005 _z0762312068 _w(OCoLC)62098043
830		0	_aAdvances in bioethics ; _vv. 8
856	4	0	_uhttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/1479-3709/8
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