Foreword

Ryuichi IDA: New Issues in Bioethics–Development of Science and Technology Opens the Door

Invited Articles

Masayoshi TARUI:
Hospital Ethics Committee and Consultation in Japan

Articles

Yutori TAKAI: 
Rare Diseases and Distributive Justice in the Allocation of Medical Resources

Jun TOKUNAGA:
The Maximin Rule under the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Thought Experiment with Expanded Triage Model

Tomohide IBUKI, Keiichiro YAMAMOTO, Kenji MATSUI:
On the Handling of a Fetus Involved in Clinical Research:
Introducing the Concept of “the Fetus as a Research Subject”

Reports

Kenji MATSUI, Taketoshi OKITA, Tadashi KAWASAKI, Yusuke INOUE, Keiichiro YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro KADOKA, Tadao TAKANO:
Preparedness of a Timely Systematic Ethics Review of a Disaster Research: A Proposal

Tsunakuni IKKA:
A Survey of the Actual Status of HECs:
Questionnaire Survey and Analysis of Committee Rules 49

Hiromi NAKAMURA, Takako SHIRATORI:
Examination of Reliability and Validity of the Japanese Version of the Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale(PNAS)

Kaoru TOMIOKA:
Relational Autonomy as a Base against Oppression:
Returning to Sexual and Reproductive Rights Movements in Feminism

Shohei SUZUKI, Yuki KAWAMURA, Kyoko TAKASHIMA, Reiko ARAKAWA. Kenji MATSUI. Keiichiro YAMAMOTO:
A Current State and ELSI of Carrier Screening for Autosomal Recessive Disease

Soichiro TODA, Haruka HIKASA:
A “Stochastic Turn” in Patients with Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome:
From High-rate Misdiagnosis to Care Methodology

Akira YANAGIBASHI, Kenji MATSUI:
Rethinking the Concept of Risk and Benefit for Research with Children

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Program of the 33rd Annual Meeting