On Legalization of Clinical Ethics from the Perspective of Philosophical and Comparative Law

• Project/Area Number: 15K03079
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Yamazaki Yasuji 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 教授 (00200668)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 臨床倫理 / 研究倫理 / 法制度化 / 法哲学 / 生命倫理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Medical Ethics has developed along with medical practice in cultures throughout the world since ancient times. Medical ethics focused on clinical ethics rather than research ethics,but this is now changing as research ethics has come to the fore and even the guidelines have become institutionalized starting in the 1970's. Clinical Ethics has been strongly influenced by Research Ethics,but has now become separated and independent in the field of Medical Ethics. How should we consider the relationship between the two ethics?
Recently governmental organizations have established ethical rules or guidelines and ethical committees that examine their compliance. How effective or valid is this "Guideline and Ethical Committee" system? Do we have to reconstruct Clinical Ethics as it becomes converted into Research Ethics? If so, how is it possible to reconstruct Clinical Ethics? In this research I will try to answer these questions from the perspective of philosophical and comparative of law.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Between Clinical and Research Ethics (2016)
  • Author(s): 山﨑康仕
  • Journal Title: 『国際文化学研究』 Volume: 第47号 Pages: 51-57
• [Presentation] Legal Institutionalism of Ethics--Clinical and Research Ethics (2015)
  • Author(s): YAMAZAKI Yasuji
  • Organizer: International Society for Clinical Bioethics
  • Place of Presentation: Bol, Croatia
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-21
• [Book] 入門・倫理学 (2018)
  • Author(s): 山﨑康仕、赤林明、児玉聡ほか
  • Total Pages: 308
  • Publisher: 勁草書房
  • ISBN: 4326102659
• [Book] 『法理論をめぐる現代的諸問題』 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山﨑康仕・角田猛之・市原靖久・亀本洋 他
  • Total Pages: 310
  • Publisher: 晃洋書房