Relationality and consensus in Japan: Implications for bioethics policy

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-296

  Brannigan, Michael C ^a  

^a La Roche College   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Consensus; Ethics; Heart transplantation; Japan; Nemawashi; Ontology; Personal identity; Policy; Rights

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; JAPAN; ORGANIZATION; POLICY;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BRAIN DEATH; CULTURE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; MORALS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0032707353     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009448825540     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. These last two aspects were pointed out by Rihito Kimura, 'Japan's Dilemma with the Definition of Death', Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1 (1991), 123-131.
2. See the discussion in George Sansom, The Western World and Japan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965, pp. 466ff.
3. See Michael Fetters, 'Nemawashi Essential for Health Research in Japan', unpublished paper presented at first Japanese Center for Quality of Life Studies Symposium, March 17, 1993, p. 2.
4. Michael Brannigan, 'A Chronicle of Organ Transplant Progress in Japan', Transplant International 5 (1992), 181.