Foreword

Eiji MARUYAMA： Ensuring Quality and Consistency in Ethical Review of Human Research

Articles of Invitation

Azumi TSUGE： Ethical and Social Debates and Underlying Thoughts about Preimplantation

Takayuki KIRA： Long-termism and Intergenerational Ethics

Articles

Eiko ISHIHARA, Hiroko KOHATA, Mariko KOMINE, Hirokuni ARAI, Eiki NAGAOKA, Yasunari MIYAZAKI, Yasuhiro OTOMO, Toyomu UGAWA, Takahiro MASUDA, Ayako KAMISATO, Masayuki YOSHIDA：A survey on the ethical issues in informed consent for the treatment of COVID-19

Miho OMOMO, Mari TSURUWAKA, Sigeki WAKIYAMA, Chieko SAKURAMOTO：Advance care planning and inter-professional collaboration issues forinpatients in acute care hospitals

Reports

Mayuko TAKANO, Mari TSURUWAKA：Nurses’ reasoning process and factors influencing their approach in palliative care unit
interdisciplinary meetings for cases wherein patient preferences are in conflict with team norms

Shinobu KURABAYASHI, Yaeko AKABORI, Akemi TAKEI, Erika SEKINE, Naoko TAMURA：Current state of and challenges related to advance care planning for ordinary citizens:From the Perspective of spokespersons and Information needs in end-of-life care

Ikuko KASHIWAZAKI： Caring and Euthanasia in Helga Kuhse:Is Advocacy of Euthanasia by Nurses Justified?

Hoko NAKAGAWA, Kenji MATSUI：The nature of consent and refusal to participate in clinical research for fetal therapy:from the perspective of research ethics

Hideki YUI： The Search for Subjects for Forced Sterilization under Article 4 of the Eugenic Protection Law:A Study of the Projects of the Public Health Center in Hokkaido in the 1950s

Jun TOKUNAGA： Reading Joyce through the Ethics of Care:Centering Gilligan’ s Interpretation

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Program of the 35th Annual Meeting