Research Catalog

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