Foreword

“There is no single answer, but we must never give up: In conclusion of the long-lasting debate on ethics”
Yasuhiko MORIOKA

Articles

• “Before a spouse entrusts a premature senility patient to a care facility:ethical aspects considered from actual cases”
  Rieko YOKOSE
• “The qualitative structure of pregnancy conflicts The lived voice of women during pregnancy”
  Tomoko TAGUCHI
• “A standard classifying somatic cells and germ-line cells in stem cell research with references to American Bioethics Commission reports”
  Yoshio NUKAGA 

 Reports

• “A communitarian bioethics based on sustainable community movements”
  Atsuki KUGA
• “The effect of confusion of the translation of statutory “will” or “intention” on self-determination in Japan”
  Tomio KAWASAKI
• “End-of-life care and death education: problems with end-of-life care for dialysis patient”
  Miho OMOMO
• “Narrative based medicine revisited”
  Maya FUJITA
• “Children’s informed consent and the role of medical professions: On the Gillick Competence in the U.K.”
  Yasue FUKUDA
• “Controversy in the UK on assisted dying and “suicide tourism” to Switzerland: Possible effects of cross-border health care on domestic regulations”
  Kyoko TAKASHIMA, Satoshi KODAMA
• “Clinical ethics education issues elaborated by comparison with longstanding disagreements about how to teach reading literature in primary and secondary schools”
  Kenji HATTORI
• “Consideration on the meaning and the influences of the ECJ judgment on the patents of human ES cells”
  Shinsuke SATO
• “Linking theoretical bioethics study with clinical nursing practice experiences: impact on study guidelines”
  Keiko SHIBATA, Kikuko KAWAMOTO
• “Impact of medical information seen in patients’ narratives of their struggle against disease: with regard to changes in breast cancer patients’ awareness”
  Sayuri KIUCHI