Comparative Law and Policy ?
Instructor
Higuchi, Norio
Schedule
Winter Semester; Mon. and Fri.; Time slot #2
Description
Law and bioethics is an emerging subject as the bioscience has developed. Under the influence of American bioethics, the autonomy idea has played the central role in dealing with a variety of issues on life and death. This course, however, takes a critical review of the autonomy idea and also of the role of lawyers and legal thinking in bioethical issues. Picking up more than dozen cases of hypothetical nature, I would offer the participants an opportunity to think and discuss a case of common interest. The first case, for example, is for us to consider whether a physician should honor a wish by his patient with genetic disease not to disclose the fact to her family. Participants are assigned a role of a friend and lawyer who are asked to give advice to this physician.
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