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Izumi Otani



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*Current Position: Professor, College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University

*Areas of Interest: Bioethics, Death with Dignity

*Received Ph.D through Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University

[Academic Achievements]
*May 21, 2008 "Statements over Bio-pouvoir and Death"
Shimazono, Susumu & Takeuchi, Seiichi (eds.) May 21, 2008 Death and Life Studies No.1: What Is Death and Life Studies? (Japanese), University of Tokyo Press, 257p. ISBN: 413014121X ISBN-13: 978-4130141215 2940yen [amazon]
*April 10, 2008 "Not Only Rights to Live and Rights to Die (Tentative)"
Ueno, Chizuko, Okuma, Yukiko, Osawa, Mari, Jinno, Naohiko & Soeda, Yoshiya (eds.) Thoughts of Care (Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, Care: its Thoughts and Practice No.1
*February 15, 2008 "Fall of Medical Care and Medical Ethics: For Life of Gap"
Training Session for Administrative Staff of Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital, Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital
*February 2, 2008 Report "From Euthanasia to Death with Dignity?: Rereading Theories of Euthanasia and Death with Dignity"
The Second Kyoto Seminar Held by Study Group on Incurable Disease and Ethics Campus Plaza Kyoto
*February 1, 2008 "Long Way before Euthanasia and Death with Dignity"
Gendai Shiso 36-2(2008-2):174-183
*January 12, 2008 Report "Rebuilding "Questions": Over "Self-determination of Life and Death""
The 9th Training Course for Welfare Education, Ichigaya Campus at Hosei University
For Details (http://devita-etmorte.com/archives/oi080112.htm) (Japanese)
*March 24, 2006 "The Birth of the Discourses on "Death with Dignity"", (The Doctoral Dissertation) [abstract]
*January 5, 2006 "The Choice of Death as "Civil Liberty": Michio Matsuda's Concept of "Self-Determination of Death"", Shiso, 981(2006-1):101-118
*August 25, 2005 "The Way of Narration of Life and Death: In Order to Change "Education on Life and Death"", pp.333-362
Kawamoto, Takashi (ed) August 25, 2005 Social Ethics of Care: Linking Medical Care, Nursing Care, Care and Education (Japanese), Yuhikaku, 369+5p. ISBN: 4641280975 2100yen [boople]/[amazon] (Japanese)
*March 25, 2005 "On Ohta Tenrei: Eutopia and Distopia of His Thoughts Concerning Euthanasia", Shiseigaku Kenkyu (Journal of Death and Life Studies, 5(Spring 2005 Issue): 99-125 [abstract]
*February 25, 2005 "What Is Hidden in "Education of Life": Over Statements of "Death with Dignity""(pp.91-127)/"Cultivating "Questions": From Classes on "Life and Death""(pp.128-155) Matsubara, Yoko & Koizumi, Yoshiyuki (eds.) The Boundary of Life: Life as an Issue (Japanese), Jinbun Shoin, 306p. ISBN: 4409040723 2730yen [amazon]/[boople] (Japanese)
*October 20, 2004 "Teaching About Reproductive Technology in High School Ethics Class, Proceedings of Workshop for Junior Scholars, January 6-8 2004, Rethinking Science and Medicine from the Perspective of Gender in the Post-Human Genome Project Era (OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY, The 21st Century COE Program, Frontiers of Gender Studies)", F-GENS Publication Series 2:34-45
*August 25, 2004 "Politics of Education on Life and Death: Globalization, Post-colonial and Gender", pp.261-269
Nitani, Sadao (ed) Historical Perception and International Understanding in the 21st Century: Proposals from Korea, China and Japan, Akashi Shoten, 410p, ISBN: 4750319570 5250yen [amazon]/[boople] (Japanese)
*December 25, 2003 ""Education on Life" in First School"/"Education on Bioethics in Secondary School"/"Bioethics Education for Future Citizens", pp.398-404
Kimura, Rihito (Chief Editor) Handbook of Bioethics: Crossing Bioethics, Hoken, 462p, ISBN: 487954504X 4200yen [amazon]/[boople] (Japanese)
*January 2000 "How to Teach About AIDS in High School Ethics Class: To Think How Society Should be and How Human Being Should Live", Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, Eubios Ethics Institute, Vol.10(1), pp.13-15
*May 1997 "Bioethics Education in a High School Ethics Class", Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, Eubios Ethics Institute, Vol.9(3), pp.78-79

[Presentations]
*September 23-25, 2000 One Attempt of Bioethics Education in Japanese High School, 5th World Congress of Bioethics(IAB),UK, London, Imperial Collage poster session
*September 20, 2000 Teaching about Reproductive Technology in a Japanese High School, The International Conference of Feminist Approaches to Bio-ethics(FAB) Satellite, UK, London, Imperial Collage


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