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What's New

[Events]
◆June 28, 2014 An International Workshop on Bioethics in the Historiographical Perspective
http://www.ritsumei-arsvi.org/en/news/read/id/222
◆June 7, 2014 Screening of Eggsploitation
http://www.ritsumei-arsvi.org/en/news/read/id/214

[Literature]
TATEIWA Shin'ya 2016 On Private Property, English Version, Kyoto Books
KOKADO Minori April 30, 2015 French Bioethics Law: How Reproductive Medicine Is Conducted,Nakanishiya Shuppan, 228p. ISBN-10: 4779509610 ISBN-13: 9784779509612 3800+tax [amazon][kinokuniya]
◆ YUI Hideki March 25, 2015 Modern History of Artificial Insemination: Postwar "Families" and Medicines / Technologies,Seikyusha, 306p. ISBN-10:4787233858 ISBN-13:978-4787233851 3000+ [amazon][kinokuniya]
YAMAMOTO Yumiko March 20, 2015 Becoming a Stillbirth Child: Interpreting "a Fetus who Is Going to Die" and Bioethics from Case Studies in France,Seikatsu Shoin, 272p. ISBN-10:4865000356 ISBN-13:978-4865000351 2800+ tax [amazon][kinokuniya]
NOZAKI Yasunobu March 15, 2015 Exceeding the Society People Fall Togther: Toward Unconditional Life Affirmation!,Chikuma Shobo, 240p. ISBN-10: 448001618X ISBN-13: 978-4480016188 1500+ [amazon][kinokuniya]
YOSHIDA Kashimi (translated by Robert Chapeskie) August 21, 2013 "Japanese Baby Hatches and Unmarried Mothers/Children Born Out of Wedlock - A Comparison with German Babyklappen and American Safe Haven Laws", Ars Vivendi Journal 5: 25-41 [HTML]/[PDF]
HOTTA Yoshitaro January 1, 2013 "Report on the Special Lecture by Prof. Ikuro Anzai Organized in Cooperation with the Japan Association for Bioethics (October 28th)"
http://www.ritsumei-arsvi.org/en/news/read/id/186
◆ YUI Hideki March 31, 2012 "An Historical Study about the First Example of Successful Artificial Insemination in Japan: An Analysis of Doctors’Statements"
Core Ethics 8:423-432 [PDF]
YOSHIDA Kashimi December 1, 2011 "Adoption Studies and Ars Vivendi"
http://www.ritsumei-arsvi.org/en/news/read/id/160
NOZAKI Yasunobu June 30, 2011 Toward the Ethics of Life Affirmation: From a Perspective of Disability Studies, Hakutakusha, 216p. ISBN-10: 4768479391 ISBN-13: 978-4768479391 2310 [amazon][kinokuniya]
◆ TAMAI Mariko & OTANI Izumi (Eds.) March 5, 2011 Introductory Bioethics 235p. ISBN-10: 4641124205 ISBN-13: 978-4641124202 1995 [amazon][kinokuniya]
OTANI Izumi November 2010 "'Good Manner of Dying' as a Normative Concept: 'Autocide,' 'Granny Dumping' and Discussions on Euthanasia/Death with Dignity in Japan," International Journal of Japanese Sociology 19(1): 49-63 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-6781.2010.01136.x/full
OTANI Izumi April 9, 2010 "Do not Commend the Self-Sacrificial Death: The Paradox in "Death and Life Education"
Kyoto Shimbun Morning Edition:6
HOTTA Yoshitaro, ABE Akira, MATOBA Kazuko & ARIMA Hitoshi May 9, 2009 "The Importance of Social Support in Decision Making regarding Terminal Care: What ALS Patients in Japan can Teach us", Poster Presentation at 11th Congress of the EAPC, Vienna, Austria
TATEIWA Shin'ya August 10, 2009 "Decision of Ventilator?", Kawaguchi & Konagaya (Eds.) Pocket Guide of Using Ventilators at Home: Life and Support, Ishiyaku Shuppan, 212p. ISBN-10:4263235290 ISBN-13:9784263235294 2730
TATEIWA Shin'ya December 1, 2009 "Bioethics", Japanese Book News 62:12-14, Sharing Japan’s Masterpieces with the World 4 (Japan Foundation) [PDF] / [HTML]
 "In the fourth and final installment of this series, Tateiwa Shin’ya, professor of sociology and social philosophy at Ritsumeikan University’s Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, traces the development of bioethics in Japan and recommends a number of works in the field that deserve to be translated for the benefit of readers in other countries." ....
 

Theme-related Items & Links(◆: in this site)

Anthropocentrism
Eugenics
Euthanasia / Death with Dignity
Organ Transplantation / Brain Death
Prenatal Diagnosis
Reproduction / Reproductive Technologies
Discourses on Disability
Disability Studies
Minamata Disease
Nanbyo: ALS etc

◇ Japan Association for Bioehics (日本生命倫理学会
The Japanese Association for Philosophical and Ethical Researches in Medicine日本医学哲学・倫理学会
Global COE Program: Development and Organization of Death and Life Studies
 (東京大学グローバルCOEプログラム「死生学の展開と組織化」
Global COE Program: Creation of a New Interdisciplinary and International Base for Biomedical Ethics Education and Research
 (東京大学グローバCOEプログラム「次世代型生命・医療倫理の教育研究拠点創成」
Global COE Program: Ars Vivendi : Forms of Human Life and Survival
 (立命館大学グローバルCOEプログラム「生存学」創成拠点――障老病異と共に暮らす世界の創造
International Network for Life Studies

Center for Bioethics (University of Pennsylvania)
Center for Genetics and Society
Genetics & Ethics
The Hastings Center
International Anti-Euthanasia Home Page
International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Disability
 →LISTSERVE ON BIOETHICS AND DISABILITY
International Task Force.org
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University

 

Who(in this site etc.)

ARIMA Hitoshi有馬 斉
HOTTA Yoshitaro堀田 義太郎
ICHINOKAWA Yasutaka市野川 容孝
KATAYAMA Tomoya片山 知哉
◆ KATO Hisatake (加藤 尚武
◆ KAWAKITA Yoshio (川喜田 愛郎
KOIZUMI Yoshiyuki小泉 義之
KURATA Mayumi倉田 真由美
MATOBA Tomoko的場 和子
MATSUBARA Yoko松原 洋子
MORIOKA Masahiro森岡 正博
NOZAKI Yasunobu野崎 泰伸
OTANI Izumi大谷 いづみ
SADAOKA Minobu貞岡 美伸
SAKURAI Hiroko櫻井 浩子
Shimizu Tetsuro清水哲郎
TATEIWA Shin'ya立岩 真也
TOSHIMITAU Keiko利光 恵子
TSUCHIYA Takashi土屋 貴志
UEMURA Kaname植村 要
YAMAMOTO Yumiko山本 由美子
◆ YONEMOTO Shohei (米本 昌平
YOSHIDA Kashimi吉田 一史美

Asch, Adrienne (Japanese)
Andrews, Lori B. (Japanese)
Annas, George J. (Japanese)
Brody, Howard (Japanese)
Capron, Alexander M. (Japanese)
Corea, Gena (Japanese)
Engelhardt Jr., H. Tristram (Japanese)
Glover, Jonathan (Japanese)
Haraway, Donna J. (Japanese)
Harris, John (Japanese)
Kass, Leon R. (Japanese)
Kuhse, Helga (Japanese)
Rachels, James (Japanese)
Singer, Peter (Japanese)

 

Literature

[2011]


『はじめて出会う生命倫理』 ◆TAMAI Mariko & OTANI Izumi (Eds.) March 5, 2011 Introductory Bioethics 235p. ISBN-10: 4641124205 ISBN-13: 978-4641124202 1995 [amazon][kinokuniya]


[2010]


OTANI Izumi November 2010 "'Good Manner of Dying' as a Normative Concept: 'Autocide,' 'Granny Dumping' and Discussions on Euthanasia/Death with Dignity in Japan," International Journal of Japanese Sociology 19(1): 49-63 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-6781.2010.01136.x/full

OTANI Izumi April 9, 2010 "Do not Commend the Self-Sacrificial Death: The Paradox in "Death and Life Education"
Kyoto Shimbun Morning Edition:6

OTANI Izumi March 4, 2010 " Roots of Thoughts of 'Euthanasia'," pp.207-233 KOMATSU Yoshihiko & KAGAWA Chiaki (Eds.) Toward Construction of Meta-bioethics: Redefining Bioethics,NTT Publishing, ISBN-10: 4757160496 ISBN-13: 978-4757160491 3360 yen [amazon][kinokuniya]

[2009]


TATEIWA Shin'ya December 1, 2009 "Bioethics", Japanese Book News 62:12-14, Sharing Japan’s Masterpieces with the World 4 (Japan Foundation) [PDF]/[HTML]

TATEIWA Shin'ya August 10, 2009 "Decision of Ventilator?", Kawaguchi & Konagaya (eds.) Pocket Guide of Using Ventilators at Home: Life and Support, Ishiyaku Shuppan, 212p. ISBN-10:4263235290 ISBN-13:9784263235294 2730

『デカルトの哲学』KOIZUMI Yoshiyuki July 2009 Philosophy of Descartes『デカルトの哲学』), Jinbun Shoin, 231p. ISBN-10: 4409040987 ISBN-13: 978-4409040980 4410 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

Hotta, Yoshitaro, Abe, Akira, Matoba, Kazuko & Arima, Hitoshi May 9, 2009 "The Importance of Social Support in Decision Making regarding Terminal Care: What ALS Patients in Japan can Teach us", Poster Presentation at 11th Congress of the EAPC, Vienna, Austria

唯の生TATEIWA Shin'ya March 25, 2009 Sole Life『唯の生』), Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo, 418p. ISBN-10:4480867201 ISBN-13:978-4480867209 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

[2008]


The Present of Deleuze / GuattariKOIZUMI Yoshiyuki, Suzuki, Izumi & Higaki, Tatsuya (eds.) January 10, 2008 The Present of Deleuze / Guattari『ドゥルーズ/ガタリの現在』), Heibonsha, 722p. ISBN: 4582702732 6090yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

『良い死』TATEIWA Shinya September 5, 2008 Good Death (?)『良い死』), Chikuma Shobo 374p. ISBN-10: 4480867198 ISBN-13: 978-4480867193 2940yen [amazon] /[kinokuniya]

[2007]


『Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research』 ◆ LAFLEUR William R., BOHME Gernot & SHIMAZONO Susumu(島薗 進) (eds.) 2007 Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research, Indiana Univ. Press, 280p., Bioethics and the Humanities ISBN-10: 0253348722 ISBN-13: 978-0253348722 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]


[2006]


『病いの哲学』KOIZUMI Yoshiyuki 2006 Philosophy of Illness『病いの哲学』), Chikuma Shobo, 236p. ISBN-10: 4480063005 ISBN-13: 978-4480063007 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]


『Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics: The Example of Human Cloning』MORIOKA Masahiro January 25, 2006 "The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Sprout of Human Life", ROETZ Heiner (ed.) Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics: The Example of Human Cloning Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp.1-16. ISBN-10: 9042016094 ISBN-13: 978-9042016095 [amazon]
http://www.lifestudies.org/cloning01.html


[2005]


『生命の臨界――争点としての生命』MATSUBARA Yoko & KOIZUMI Yoshiyuki (eds.) February 25, 2005 The Boundary of Life: Life as an Issue『生命の臨界――争点としての生命』), Jinbun Shoin, 306p. ISBN: 4409040723 2730yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]


[2004]


?w?`?k?r?\?\?s???フ身?フと・?????@?B?xTATEIWA Shin'ya November 2004 ALS: Immovable Body and Breathing Machine『ALS:不動の身体と息する機械』), Tokyo, Igak-Shoin, 449p. ISBN-10: 4260333771 ISBN-13: 978-4260333771 2940yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

MORIOKA Masahiro 2004 "Cross-cultural Approaches to the Philosophy of Life in the Contemporary World:From Bioethics to Life Studies", SLEEBOOM Margaret (ed.) Genomics in Asia: A Clash of Bioethical Interests?, Kegan Paul, London, England, pp.179-199. ISBN-10: 0710309430 ISBN-13: 978-0710309433 [amazon]/[kinokuniya]
http://www.lifestudies.org/cross-cultural.html


[2002]


MORIOKA Masahiro May 2002 "Disability Movement and Inner Eugenic Thought: A Philosophical Aspect of Independent Living and Bioethics", Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 12(May 2002),94-97.
http://www.lifestudies.org/disability01.html

[2000]


『優生学と人間社会』表紙 ◆YONEMOTO Shohei, MATSUBARA Yoko, NUDESHIMA Jiro & ICHINOKAWA Yoshitaka July 20, 2000 Eugenics and Human Society: Where will the Century of Life Science Head to?『優生学と人間社会』) (Japanese), Kodansha Gendai Shinsho No.1511, 286p. ISBN-10: 4061495119 ISBN-13: 978-4061495111 777yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]/[boople]/[bk1] (Japanese)


『弱くある自由へ』TATEIWA Shin'ya 2000 Freedom to be Weak『弱くある自由へ』), Tokyo, Seidosha, 357+25p. ISBN-10: 4791758528 ISBN-13: 978-4791758524 2940yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

[1998]


MORIOKA Masahiro 1998 "What do We Learn from Japanese Feminist Bioethics?", Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 8 (1998),183-184. Also Reprinted in Women's Health Journal, July (2003)
http://www.lifestudies.org/feminism01.html

[1997]


On Private PropertyTATEIWA Shin'ya September 1997 On Private Property『私的所有論』), Tokyo, Keiso-Shobo 445+66p ISBN-10: 4326601175 ISBN-13: 978-4326601172 6300yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]


Chapter 4
Note 7 "Assertions like those made above do indeed seem in some sense "anti-western". In regard to the various thinkers we have looked at beginning in chapter two, putting aside issues related to the "economy" to the extent of my knowledge there is no one working in the field of bioethics in Japan who has thoroughly adopted, for example, the perspective of the "person theory" (see chapter five note ten). "Self determination" is affirmed, but in most cases there is no clear assertion of "qualifications" or "criteria" required for an individual to be considered a person. Looking at this alone a [cultural] difference can clearly be perceived. I would not attempt to deny this difference. However, even in "the West" the assertions of radical (?) bioethicists are not generally accepted. And the current state of debate and regulation regarding these issues in Germany, for example, is quite different from what is happening in the United States (cf. chapter three note six). Even within the U.S. it is not as though everyone advocates for self determination and/or utilitarianism. I do not think such differences are being greatly overestimated. One other point, which I also raised at the start of this book, is that "Eastern" or "Japanese" approaches (see for example Bioethics association of East Asia president Sakamoto [1996a][1996b]) are somewhat amorphous and in the end do not make any straightforward claims. This does not mean that they have not had any effect in practice. For example, things which could never be accepted based on the idea of "rights" are easily adopted out of respect for "Japanese sensibilities" (see note sixteen). We must be cautious when vague terms are used to speak about things which have unclear but nevertheless "real" or "practical" implications. For more on Buddhist and Confucian approaches to reproductive technologies see Nagata [1996]. "

[1995]


MORIOKA Masahiro 1995 "Bioethics and Japanese Culture: Brain Death, Patients' Rights, and Cultural Factors", Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 5:87-90
http://www.lifestudies.org/japanese.html


[1994]


MORIOKA Masahiro 1994 "Toward International and Cross-cultural Bioethics", Norio Fujiki, M.D. & Darryl R.J. Macer, Ph.D. (eds.) Intractable Neurological Disorders, Human Genome Research and Society. Proceedings of the Third International Bioethics Seminar in Fukui, Eubios Ethics Institute,(1994):293-295
http://www.lifestudies.org/international01.html

[1991]


MORIOKA Masahiro 1991 "The Concept of Inochi: A Philosophical Perspective on the Study of Life", Japan Review Vol.2:83-115
http://www.lifestudies.org/inochi.html

 

Newspaper Articles

◆ January 19, 2009 "In Vitro Fertilization Stands Test of 30 Years" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20090119a2.html
◆ August 19, 2007 "Why not Let Doping Close the Gene Gap?" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20070819a2.html
◆ September 2, 2006 "Many Pairs Fancy Sex Selection over Nature's Course" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060902f2.html
◆ June 30, 2005 "Changing Values Pose Problems for Terminal Care in Japan" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fe20050630rh.html
◆ October 24, 2004 "Best not to Forget the Women in the Debate on Stem-cell Research" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20041024pb.html
◆ December 27, 2003 "Homegrown Embryonic Stem Cells in Offing: Hurdles Ahead but Scientists See Medical, Property Rights Benefits" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20031227b4.html
◆ June 11, 2003 "Despite the Stakes, Public Role in Bioethics Debate Falls Short" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20030611b6.html
◆ October 18, 2000 "How Dead Is Dead Enough?: U.S. Taps a Controversial New Source of Organ Donors" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20001018c2.html
◆ January 30, 2000 "Rihito Kimura" (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20000130vk.html

 

History (in Japan)

◆Origin of the Word "Bioethics"

The word "bioethics" was coined and first officially used by Professor Van Rensselaer Potter in 1970.
For details, please take a look at http://bioethics.net/journal/j_articles.php?aid=71

◆Introduction of "Bioethics" to Japan

Translation of Professor Van Rensselaer Potter's Bioethics, Bridge to the Future→POTTER Van Rensselaer 1971 Bioethics, Bridge to the Future, Prentice-Hall=1974 今堀和友・小泉仰・斎藤信彦訳,『バイオエシックス――生存の科学』,ダイヤモンド社

Shinya Tateiwa September 1997 On Private Property『私的所有論』), Tokyo, Keiso-Shobo 445+66p ISBN-10: 4326601175 ISBN-13: 978-4326601172 6300yen [amazon]/[kinokuniya]
Shinya Tateiwa 2016 On Private Property, English Version, Kyoto Books Translation by Robert Chapeskie

Chapter 1
Note 7 "This term was first used in Potter [1970] [1971]. What is being asserted here is something similar to what is now referred to as "environmental ethics" and Potter's claims (as later presented in Potter [1988]) differ from "bioethics" as it later developed (see Morioka Masahiro [1993a]). Scholars like Koichi Bai [1970] have been at the forefront of the field of "medical law" in Japan. For summaries of the development of "bioethics" in America see Shohei Yamamoto [1985a], [1989a], [1988c], Toshihito Kimura [1987], Masayuki Obayashi [1993], Chiaki Kagawa [1995a] and Shinichi Tanida [1990] (the latter two appear in Imai and Kagawa eds. [1995]). For a discussion of the discourse related to secularization see Tanida [1991]. For information on its introduction to Japan and its current status see Takashi Tsuchiya [1994d]. For collections of related resources which introduce large numbers of writings on these subjects see the following works published by Chiba University and edited mainly by Koyuki Iida and Masatake Kato (now at the University of Kyoto): Iida ed. [1986], [1987], [1988], [1994], Iida and Kato eds. [1990], [1993], and "Development of Science and Technology and Modern Society II" (part of the general studies curriculum at Chiba university), Chiba University Planning and Steering Committee eds. [1995], [1996]. Another important text on this subject which is available in bookstores in Japan is Iida and Kato eds. [1988]. The contents of the above works are listed on the "bioethics" section of the arsvi website. A list of publications can be found in "The Journal of Medical Law" (Nippon Hyouronsha). Other relavent organizations include the Japan Association of Bioethics and the Bioethics Society. For writings by one of the leading sociologists working in this area see Etzioni [1973].

◇POTTER Van Rensslaer 1970 "Bioethis : The Science of Survial", Persp. Biol. Med.14-1:127-153 <21>
◇―――――  1971 Bioethics, Bridge to the Future, Prentice-Hall=1974 今堀和友・小泉仰・斎藤信彦訳,『バイオエシックス――生存の科学』,ダイヤモンド社 <21>
◇―――――  1988 Global Bioethics : Building on the Leopold Legacy, Michigan State Univ. Press <21>

TATEIWA Shin'ya December 1, 2009 "Bioethics", Japanese Book News 62:12-14, Sharing Japan’s Masterpieces with the World 4 (Japan Foundation) [PDF] / [HTML]


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