The ritual of rights in Japan law, society, and health policy
The Ritual of Rights in Japan rejects the traditional view that Japan is a nation where overt conflict and the assertion of rights are unacceptable. It examines both historical events and contemporary policy, in concluding that rights-based conflict is an important part of Japanese legal, political,...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2000.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in law and society. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39687405*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
