Comparative Law and Policy II
Faculty
Description
As biotechnology advances, we have faced a lot of touchy issues regarding bioethics and the law. In this course we use a sort of casebook newly published in Japan to deal with those issues. The book includes hypothetical questions, notes and comments and suggested readings both in Japan and in foreign countries. The topics to be discussed are as follows:
To tell or not to tell a genetic disease to a family
Regulation of assisted reproduction
How to care terminally ill patients
Medical research involving human subjects
Inter vivos lever transplantation
Rationing scarce medical resources