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Administrative Legislation in Japan: Guidelines on Scientific and Ethical Standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2004

BRIAN T. SLINGSBY ,
NORIKO NAGAO  and
AKIRA AKABAYASHI
BRIAN T. SLINGSBY
Affiliation:
Brian T. Slingsby, B.A., is a U.S.-Japan Ambassadorial Scholar studying cross-cultural biomedical ethics in the Graduate Program at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
NORIKO NAGAO
Affiliation:
Noriko Nagao, M.P.H., R.N., is Research Assistant in the Department of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and a Ph.D. candidate at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
AKIRA AKABAYASHI
Affiliation:
Akira Akabayashi, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Ethics at the School of Health Science and Nursing, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and Professor at the School of Public Health, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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Extract

In the past few years, a second phase of biomedical ethics in Japan has begun to surface with a succession of governmental guidelines and laws regulating biomedical technology. Although this rush of guidelines exemplifies a heightened awareness concerning ethical standards for healthcare research, it also invites several practical, political, and procedural problems.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: INTERNATIONAL VOICES 2004
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 245 - 253
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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