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The ritual of rights in Japan : Law, society and health policy in Japan / Eric A. Feldman.
- Title
- The ritual of rights in Japan : Law, society and health policy in Japan / Eric A. Feldman.
- Author
- Feldman, Eric A.
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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- Description
- xiv, 219 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Subjects
- Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc > Law and legislation > Japan
- Law > Social aspects > Japan
- Dead bodies (Law) > Japan
- Actions and defenses > Japan
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Legal status, laws, etc > Japan
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Organ Transplantation
- Patient Advocacy > legislation & jurisprudence
- Public Policy
- Japan
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-213) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society -- Rights in Japanese history -- The roots of "rights" -- Rights before kenri: early antecedents -- Rights, protest, and rebellion in Tokugawa Japan -- The Movement for Freedom and Popular Rights -- State power and the control of rights -- Patients, rights, and protest in contemporary Japan -- "New rights" movements and traditional social protest -- Studying the "new rights" -- Patients' rights as "new rights": conceptualization, litigation, legislation -- Law, rights, and policy in contemporary Japan: two narratives -- AIDS policy and the politics of rights -- AIDS, public health, and individual rights -- An epidemiological view -- Hemophiliacs and gay men: rights, risks, and repression -- Proposal, debate, and enactment of the AIDS prevention law -- AIDS, activism, and accommodation -- Asserting rights, legislating death -- Rights, brain death, and organ transplantation -- Death, culture, and body parts -- Scientific, legal, medical, and political attempts to define death -- Power politics and body politics: the Ad-Hoc Committee for the Study of Brain Death and Organ Transplantation -- A tentative truce in the fight over death -- Litigation and the courts: talking about rights -- Rights and the legal process -- AIDS: crisis, compensation, and the courts -- Brain death and organ transplantation: accusation and discretion -- A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan -- Rights, modernization, and the "uniqueness" of the Japanese legal system -- Rights and the metaphor of legal transplants.
- ISBN
- 0521770408 (hb)
- 0521779642 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^99023257^
- OCLC
- 41131694
- SCSB-13263530
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library