Taking Life and Death Seriously

"Taking Life and Death Seriously: Bioethics from Japan".

List of contents

Introduction: A Short History of Bioethics in Japan. (T. Takahashi). Chapter 1. A Synthesis of Bioethics and Environmental Ethics Founded upon the Concept of Care: Toward a Japanese Approach to Bioethics. (T. Takahashi). Chapter 2. On Human Dignity: Japan and the West. (S. Nakayama). Chapter 3. Moral Thinking about the Embryo-Fetus Period: Reconsidering the Problems of Identity and Existence. (H. Yahata). Chapter 4. Changes of Bioethical Perspective of Japanese Clinical Geneticists about Repro-Genetics during 1995-2001. (E. Shinoki, I. Matsuda). Chapter 5. Competency Testing in Medical and Psychiatric Practice: Legal and Psychological Concepts and Dilemmas. (T. Kitamura, F. Kitamura). Chapter 6. Care for the Elderly in Japan: Past, Present and Future. (T. Saga). Chapter 7. Nursing of Dying Patients: From the Viewpoint of Cultural Background of Attending Death. (T. Morita). Chapter 8. Cell Death: its style and significance. (H. Saya). Chapter 9. The Natural Funeral (shizensou) in Japan Today: Movement, Background, and the Next World. (H. Taguchi). Chapter 10. Medical Business Ethics: The HIV-Tainted-Blood Affair in Japan. (T. Tanaka). Chapter 11. Minamata Disease as "Soul": An Uncertain "Alternative Future" in the Modern Japanese State. (K. Keida). Chapter 12. The Global Lessons of Minamata Disease: An Introduction to Minamata Studies. (M. Harada).

Summary

"Taking Life and Death Seriously: Bioethics from Japan".

Product details

• Authors: Edward Bittar, Wayne N. Shelton, Takao Takahashi, Takahashi Takao Takahashi
• Assisted by: Edward Bittar (Editor), Wayne N. Shelton (Editor), Takao Takahashi (Editor)
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2005
• EAN: 9780762312061
• ISBN: 978-0-7623-1206-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 681 g
• Series: Advances in Bioethics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries