High school teaching of bioethics in New Zealand, Australia and Japan

Journal of Moral Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 401-420

  Asada, Yukiko ^a   Tsuzuki, Miho ^a   Akiyama, Shiro ^a   Macer, Nobuko Y ^b   Macer, Darryl R J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Eubios Ethics Institute   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRICULUM; ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL BIOETHICS EDUCATION SURVEY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SCHOOL; SCIENCE; SOCIOLOGY; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL BIOETHICS EDUCATION SURVEY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOETHICS; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; EUGENICS; FACULTY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SCHOOLS; SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEACHING;

EID: 0030370973     PISSN: 03057240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305724960250403     Document Type: Article

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