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Current Status:

Post Doctoral Fellow at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Part-time Lecturer at Osaka International College of Social Welfare

Research Theme

Ethics, Sociology (Social Theory)

Academic Achievements

November 16, 2009 "Approaches to the Issues of Euthanasia / Death with Dignity with the View of Ars Vivendi" Contributing to this Website

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

ABE Akira & ARIMA Hitoshi (eds.) March 19, 2009 Care and Emotional Labor, Report Issued by Research Center of Ars Vivendi at Ritsumeikan University, Vol.8, 2009. 247p. ISSN 1882-6539

February 25, 2009 "Criticism of Care Ethics: Preface", Ars Vivendi 1:279-292

HOTTA Yoshitaro, ARIMA Hitoshi, ABE Akira & MATOBA Kazuko February 25, 2009 "Lessons of Lesley Burke Case in the UK: Second-Thoughts on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics", Ars Vivendi 1:131-164

September 14, 2008 Report "Critical Examination of Normative Social Theories: Over Summum Malum Appraoch"
The 3rd Annual Convention of the Society for Sociological Theory in Japan, Kobe University

July 31, 2008 Comment, "Logic and Ethics of Care: Nursing Care, Emotion and Labor", Ritsumeikan University

March 31, 2008 "The Logical Structure of Richard Rorty's Liberalism"
Core Ethics 4:1-12 [Abstract]

December 23, 2007 Report
Study Group of Care, #403/404, Soshikan Building, Ritsumeikan University

November 3, 2007 "Richard Rorty's Theory of "Justice"" (Japanese)
The 60th Annual Convention of Kansai Society for Ethics, Kyoto Women's University

August 10, 2007 "To whom should We Provide Care to what Extent?: Range and Limitaion of "Ethics of Care"" (Japanese)
Study Group: Considering Care in "Publicness", Ritsumeikan University

ABE Akira, OTANI Michitaka & MATOBA Kazuko May 19, 2007 "Offense and Defense over the Bill of Death with Dignity in Britain No.2: Condition of the Campaign outside the Diet" (Japanese)
The 33rd Annual Convention of the Japanese Society of Health and Medical Sociology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~gr022059/product/joffe/20070519abe.htm (Japanese)

March 2007 "Rethinking of Social Solidarity"
The Journal of Studies in Contemporary Sociological Theory 1:70-83 [Abstract]

March 31, 2006 "An Inquiry into R. Rorty's View on Human Rights"
Core Ethics 2:1-15 [Abstract]


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