Research of the consciousness about genetic testing and reproductive medicine in the East Asia

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24610002
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Bioethics
• Research Institution: Ochanomizu University (2013-2014); Kyoto University (2012)
• Principal Investigator: NUMABE Hironao お茶の水女子大学, 大学院人間創成科学研究科, 教授 (00237801)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 医療倫理 / 遺伝医療 / 生命倫理 / 東アジア / 国際情報交換 / 台湾 / モンゴル / ネパール

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I made the bioethics questionnaire survey in Japan (2008 & 2012), Nepal (2012), Mongolia (2014) and Taiwan (2015). The questionnaire was consist of properties of the student, considerations to spiritual matters, acceptability of an artificial abortion, the time of the beginning of human life, and considerations to various genetic testing. In all countries, most of the students are acceptable to the genetic tests including clinical, predictive, genetic carrier detecting, prenatal, and preimplantation tests.

Free Research Field

臨床遺伝学