1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of End-of-Life Ethical Issues : The right to Die and The Duty to Die
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10672217
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
基礎・地域看護学
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| Research Institution | Nagano College of Nursing |
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Principal Investigator |
KONISHI Emiko Nagano College of Nursing, Nursing, Professor, 看護学部, 教授 (70011054)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MITOH Takako Nagano College of Nursing, Nursing, Professor, 看護学部, 学長 (00086266)
OHTA Katsumasa Nagano College of Nursing, Nursing, Professor, 看護学部, 教授 (60194156)
DAVIS Anne j. Nagano College of Nursing, Nursing, Professor, 看護学部, 教授 (70291573)
YAHIRO Michiko Nagano College of Nursing, Nursing, Assistant (1999), 看護学部, 助手
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Keywords | right to die / duty to die / perception / japan / 自己決定権 |
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| Research Abstract |
The right to die means that the terminally ill person has the right to refuse further treatment. The duty to die means that the terminally ill person feels that he has no choice and must refuse treatment because of social factors such as the family situation or financial cost to society. These two ethical concepts were explored as follows : 1) An in-depth literature review, 2) the development of the questionnaires, 3) data collection from questionnaires, and 4) analysis of the data. Data were collected from 123 Japanese nurses, physicians and others interested in bioethics problems, and 137 overseas counterparts. The right to die received support from the majority of the sample ; whereas the duty to die received weaker support from overseas and rather strong disagreement from Japan. Themes emerged in the two groups from a content analysis of their reactions to the major concepts of right to die and duty to die, and these included autonomy, meaning of life, justice, and patient-family connectedness and love. Differences and similarities in the meaning of these themes were explored.
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