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The Physician–Patient Relationship and Medical Ethics in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Ryuji Ishiwata  and
Akio Sakai
Ryuji Ishiwata
Affiliation:
A professor of Philosophy and the Classical Languages, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, and the President of the Japanese Association for Philosophical and Ethical Research in Medicine
Akio Sakai
Affiliation:
An assistant professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan
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In April 1991, a general meeting of the Japanese Medical Conference (called ev 4 years) was held in Kyoto and attracted 32,500 participants, the largest number ever. The theme of the meeting was “Medicine and Health Care in Transition,” and the program Included panel discussions on “How to Promote the Quality of Health Care” and “How Terminal Care Should Be Provided” and symposia on “Diagnosis of Brain Death and Its Problems,” “The Propriety of Organ Transplantation,” and “Brain Death and Organ Transplantation.” These titles reveal not only how medical professionals in Japan perceive the present situatior healthcare but also the Issues that most concern them.

Type
Special Section: Healthcare Relationships: Ties that Bind
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Winter 1994 , pp. 60 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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