The cautious acceptance of informed consent in Japan*

Medicine and Law

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 705-720

  Leflar, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHLOROQUINE; CLIOQUINOL; NEDAPLATIN; SORIVUDINE; THALIDOMIDE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG SCREENING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; LAW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0031545439     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. See Naoki Ikegami & John C. Campbell, Medical Care in Japan, 333 New England J. Med. 1295 (1995).
2. Naoki Ikegami, Japanese Health Care: Low Cost Through Regulated Fees 10(3) HEALTH AFFAIRS, Fall 1991 at 87, 103.
3. See e.g., Michael R. Reich, Why the Japanese Don't Export More Pharmaceuticals: Health Policy as Industrial Policy 32 Calif. Management Rev. 124, 132 (1990).
4. See Eiji Maruyama, Japanese Law of Informed Consent, 25 Kobe U.L. Rev. 39 (1991), Kunihiko Yoshida, Kinji no Infomudo Konsento Ron e no Ichi Glmon (I) (A Doubt Concerning Recent Informed Consent Theory: Part I), 110 Minsho 254, 258 (1994).
5. See Eiji Maruyama, Japanese Law of Informed Consent, 25 Kobe U.L. Rev. 39 (1991), Kunihiko Yoshida, Kinji no Infomudo Konsento Ron e no Ichi Glmon (I) (A Doubt Concerning Recent Informed Consent Theory: Part I), 110 Minsho 254, 258 (1994).
6. Judgment of Supreme Court, June 19, 1981, 1011 Hanji 54m 447 Hanta 78.
7. See Generally Tetsu Nakamura, Ishi no Setsumei to Kanja no Handan/Doi ni tsuite (The Physician's Explanation and the Patient's Decision and Consent), 773 Hanta 4, 10-14 (1992).
8. Judgment of Nagoya District Court, May 29, 1989, 1325 Hanji 103 (Makino v. Red Cross Hospital).
9. Judgment of Supreme Court (Petty Bench), April 25, 1995 1530 Hanji 53.
10. Judgment of Nagoya High Court, Oct. 31, 1990, 43 Kominshu 178, 183-84, 1373 Hanji 68.
11. Robert B. Leflar, Informed Consent and Patients' Rights in Japan, 33 Houston L.Rev. 1, 55-57 (1996).
12. 464 F.2d 772 (D.C. Cir.), Cert, denied 409 U.S. 1064 (1972).
13. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Brain Death and Organ Transplanation: Cultural Bases of Medical Technology 35 Current Anthropology 233 (1994) Eric A. Feldman, Legal Transplants, Organ Transplants: The Japanese Experience, 3 Soc. Legal Stud. 71 (1994).
14. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Brain Death and Organ Transplanation: Cultural Bases of Medical Technology 35 Current Anthropology 233 (1994) Eric A. Feldman, Legal Transplants, Organ Transplants: The Japanese Experience, 3 Soc. Legal Stud. 71 (1994).
15. Japanese patients with renal insufficiency have been reported to have bought packaged "kidney tours" to the Philippines, the price of which covered air fare, hotel accommodations, hospital fees and doctor fees, as well as the organ itself.
16. The most significant of these was the Provisional Commission for the Study of Brain Death and Organ Transplantation. The Commission's final report contained a strong dissent, which is relatively unusual in consensus-minded Japan. Important considerations with respect to brain Death and Organ Transplants (English version 1994, originally published 1992).
17. Margaret Lock, Contests with Death: Ideologies of Nationalism and Internationalism in Japan in Ian Robinson (ed.), Life and Death Under High Technology 169-188, at 187 (1994).
18. th ed. 1993).
19. 21 C.F.R. & 312.120 (1994).
20. Naoki Ikegami, Efficiency and Effectiveness in Health Care, 123 Daedalus 113, 122 (1994).
21. Infomudo Konsento no Arikata ni Kan-Suru Kentokai Hokokusho: Genki no Deru Infomudo Konsento o Mezashite (Report of the Commission for the Study of Informed Consent: Toward an Invigorating Informed Consent) (1995)