2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A social survey of Japanese transplant tourism in China, and a review of ethical, legal and social implications.
| Project/Area Number |
23613006
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Bioethics
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| Research Institution | Okayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
AWAYA TSUYOSHI 岡山大学, 大学院医歯薬学総合研究科, 教授 (20151194)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OBAYASHI Masayuki 東洋英和女学院大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (50176989)
OGAWA Tatsuyuki 岡山大学, 大学院医歯薬学総合研究科, 助手 (10346421)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 死刑囚移植 / 移植ツーリズム / 渡航移植 / ELSI / 社会調査 / 臓器移植 / 移植患者 |
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| Research Abstract |
I have arrived at the following considerations from the ethical, legal and social viewpoints, on the basis of the questionnaire survey and the interview survey with the Japanese patients who underwent organ transplants in China.
Just as prisoners have human rights,so patients who go to foreign countries for organ transplant because they are not able to do so in their own countries also deserve human rights. If the former are weak under the power of the state, the latter are weak in the face of the power of the medical establishment, especially in Japan.
It is not truly ethical for us to say to patients who have no choice that they should sit and wait for death.
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