| Project/Area Number |
15300292
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology/History of science and technology
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan Univ. |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUBARA Yoko Ritsumeikan Univ., Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Professor, 大学院・先端総合学術研究科, 教授 (80303006)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KOIZUMI Yoshiyuki Ritsumeikan Univ., Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Professor, 大学院・先端総合学術研究科, 教授 (10225352)
TATEIWA Shinya Ritsumeikan Univ., Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Professor, 大学院・先端総合学術研究科, 教授 (30222110)
ENDO Akira Ritsumeikan Univ., Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Professor, 大学院・先端総合学術研究科, 教授 (90148388)
SATO Tatsuya Ritsumeikan Univ., College of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90215806)
TSUCHIYA Takashi Osaka City University, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Associate Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 助教授 (90264788)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥12,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥4,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥4,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000)
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| Keywords | bioethics / publicness / disabilities / science studies / life sciences / medical care / communication / minorities |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project examined the relationship of life science and biotechnology to publicness, particularly the areas of convergence and divergence between public interest and individual need. The project consisted of the following three research activities. First, the study investigated, analyzed, and sorted through information from secondary sources about ethical and social problems that have occurred in medicine, health, and social welfare from the 20^<th> century through the present. Second, this project examined the connection between publicness and life science and technology, especially, the relationship between the benefit of the public and that of people with illnesses who have difficulties leading independent lives or establishing financial freedom as well as that of people with disabilities. Third, this project examined the principles of ethics that correspond to the development of life science and biotechnology from a general viewpoint. This project accepts that the appearance of the groundbreaking knowledge and technology of the life sciences demands the reframing of the concepts of human rights and the reexamination of the norms of bioethics. Also, there is a growing necessity of integrating the preservation of biodiversity and biogeocenosis and the giving of respect theoretically and systematically to bioethics under the condition that the whole life sphere is regarded as the subject of research into biological resources.
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