BIOETIKA U JAPANU I AZIJI
BIOETHICS IN JAPAN AND ASIA

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on bioethics in Japan with comparisons to Asia, and global comparisons. There are two ways to think of the term bioethics, one is as descriptive bioethics - the way people view life and their moral interactions and responsibilities with life. The other is prescriptive bioethics - to say what is good or bad, what principles are most important, or that people have rights and therefore others have duties to them. The world "bioethics" means the study of ethical issues arising from human involvement with life, and I have called it simply the "love of life". The International Bioethics Survey performed in 1993 in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore and Thailand is used as a background to discuss the issues of bioethics. The topics discussed include attitudes to science; environmental concerns; genetic engineering; privacy, genetic diseases and AIDS; prenatal genetic screening; gene therapy; assisted reproductive technology; the medical profession and medical ethics; euthanasia; brain death and organ transplants; and education.

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