New Perspectives in Japanese Bioethics.
Post-war Japan has seen profound and rapid social change and transformation. One of the most visible areas of change in Japan has been medicine, and particularly the ethical practices and policies that guide medical decision-making. The formal discipline of bioethics, Seimei Rinri in Japanese, has g...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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| ISBN: | 9781443873963 1443873969 1322889724 9781322889726 |
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| Summary: | Post-war Japan has seen profound and rapid social change and transformation. One of the most visible areas of change in Japan has been medicine, and particularly the ethical practices and policies that guide medical decision-making. The formal discipline of bioethics, Seimei Rinri in Japanese, has grown by leaps and bounds since the late 1970s, when it began to appear in the curriculum and professional activities of Japanese medical schools and philosophy departments. The introduction of bioethics to Japan was timely, as innovation in medicine and technology was evolving in ways that revealed. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Series: | Studies in theoretical and applied ethics.
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