Foreword

“Bioethics & I”
Toshihiro SUZUKI

Articles

• “Beginning of topic regarding euthanasia in Japan: significance and problems of “Kanmin no setsu” by Ogai Mori”
  Junsei JUDAI
• “An alternative to clinical ethics committees or ethics consultants: Potentialities of moral case deliberation”
  Kenji HATTORI
• “Care Worker Awareness of Ethical Issues and Current Status of Ethics Education”
  Masumi SUMITA
• “Preventive surgery for non-ruptured brain aneurysm: factors enhancing physician discretion and/or patient self-determination”
  Kiyoshi MURAOKA
• “Deciphering the silence of patients from Bartleby: A trial of medical ethics case study through analysis of a literary work”
  Jun TOKUNAGA
• “Human Dignity, Welfare, and Care”
  Toshihiko DOHZONO

Reports

• “Practical Wisdom for Ethical Issues in Perioperative Nursing”
  Shino OKAJIMA, Akihiro SHUDA
• “The Discussions of ‘Therapeutic Abortion Law’ in Iran”
  Sachiko HOSOYA
• “A survey of informed consent in patients with dementia in Japan”
  Yoshihiko IIJIMA
• “Difficulty of autonomic decision and reality of informed consent in child vaccination:  Consideration based on a guardian attitude survey in Tokyo”
  Yumi KAWAKAMI
• “Recent situation about preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland”
  Yutaro MIENO
• “Issues Surrounding Donor Anonymity in The Era of Genetic Testing”
  Yukari SEMBA, Kiyomi SHIMIZU, Naoaki KUJI
• “Debates on end-of-life care and the legalization of “good death” in Taiwan: the Hospice and Palliative Care Act and the Patient Self-Determination Act”
  Yicheng CHUNG
• “Narratives of cancer patients involved in clinical trials: The difficulty of distinguishing “therapy” from “research””
  Sachie YOSHIDA, Haruka NAKADA, Kaori MUTO