2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Positive and Legally Philosophical Study on Establishments of Norm in the Ways How to Die
| Project/Area Number |
11620007
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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 |
Fundamental law
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| Research Institution | KOBE UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAZAKI Yasuji KOBE UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES, PROFESSOR, 国際文化学部, 教授 (00200668)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | EUTHANASIA / HOW TO DIE / LAW AND ETHICS / LAW AND MORALS / MEDICAL ETHICS / BIOETHICS |
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims to explore "euthanasia" which is one of the ways how to die these days. First it conducted the research on facts to demonstrate Japanese doctors' and nurses' attitudes towards and practices of voluntary euthanasia (VE) and compare their attitudes and practices in this regard, by postal survey using a self-administrated questionnaire, most of which are as same as those conducted in Australia and Holland before. It was found that Japanese medical practitioners tend to take into far more consideration the opinion of the patient family, not of the patient herself or himself, compared with ones in Australia or Holland. It was also found that Japanese nurses are hardly involved in VE, though Japanese medical practitioners are generally more passive attitude towards VE than Australian and Dutch ones.
Secondly this research conducted theoretical studies on euthanasia. It was found that we need a more comprehensive theory than Anglo-American or West-European one which seems too individualistic based on a self-determination theory. We, especially East Asian people, are supposed to need the theory which takes into account as much family's opinion as individual's one on his or her death.
So thirdly this research will try to construct the family-based theory on euthanasia, especially demonstrating East-Asian people's attitudes towards VE.
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Research Products
(14 results)
