Study of views on posthumous reproduction, focusing on its relation with views on family and religion in modern Japan

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ueda, Noriyuki ^a,d   Kushi, Nobutaka ^b,e   Nakatsuka, Mikiya ^c   Ogawa, Tatsuyuki ^a   Nakanishi, Yoshiko ^c   Shishido, Keisuke ^c   Awaya, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Chugoku Newspaper Office

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Department of Arts and Entertainments   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Consciousness; Japan; Posthumous reproduction; Religion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIOETHICS; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; POLITICS; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION;

ATTITUDE; BIOETHICS; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POLITICS; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57049140971     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: 0386300X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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