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    Ethics Expertise and Public Credibility: A Case Study of the Ethical Principle of Justice
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 41 (4): 709-731. 2016.
    In recent years, scholars in science and technology studies have examined the advice that experts make for the governance of biomedicine. This STS scholarship, however, has not yet explained how the credibility of ethics expertise in public bioethics is produced from particular conditions and extended to different settings. This article describes how a bioethics commission created the ethical principle of justice and examines how the ethics expertise established public credibility on the justice…Read more
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    As biomedical research with volunteers was expanded in the United States, the rule of subject selection, constituting scientific and ethical criteria, was generated in 1981 to resolve selection bias in research. Few historical studies, however, have investigated the role of this new hybrid rule in institutional review systems. This paper describes how bioethics commissions and federal agencies have created the subject selection rule based on the concept of justice. I argue that the standardizati…Read more
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    Clinical Ethics Consultation: Examining how American and Japanese experts analyze an Alzheimeras case
    with Noriko Nagao, Mark P. Aulisio, Misao Fujita, Shinji Kosugi, Stuart Youngner, and Akira Akabayashi
    BMC Medical Ethics 9 (1): 2-. 2008.
    BackgroundFew comparative studies of clinical ethics consultation practices have been reported. The objective of this study was to explore how American and Japanese experts analyze an Alzheimer's case regarding ethics consultation.MethodsWe presented the case to physicians and ethicists from the US and Japan (one expert from each field from both countries; total = 4) and obtained their responses through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews.ResultsEstablishing a consensus was a common goal amo…Read more
  • ""6.6. The Visual Transcription of" Family Disease": A Comparison of the Use of Medical Pedigrees in Canadian & Japanese Genetic Counselling Practices (review)
    Bioethics in Asia: The Proceedings of the Unesco Asian Bioethics Conference (Abc'97) and the Who-Assisted Satellite Symposium on Medical Genetics Services, 3-8 Nov, 1997 in Kobe/Fukui, Japan, 3rd Murs Japan International Symposium, 2nd Congress of the Asi. forthcoming.
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    生命科学技術をめぐる倫理的・法的・社会的問題について、社会の意思決定に重要な役割を果たす「生命倫理委員会」。理論と事例をつなぐ立場から、公共政策としての生命倫理を体系的に論じる。