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The Resource The ritual of rights in Japan : law, society, and health policy, Eric A. Feldman, (electronic resource)

The ritual of rights in Japan : law, society, and health policy, Eric A. Feldman, (electronic resource)

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The Ritual of Rights in Japan challenges the conventional wisdom that the assertion of rights is fundamentally incompatible with Japanese legal, political and social norms. It discusses the creation of a Japanese translation of the word 'rights', Kenri; examines the historical record for words and concepts similar to 'rights'; and highlights the move towards recognising patients' rights in the 1960s and 1970s. Two policy studies are central to the book. One concentrates on Japan's 1989 AIDS Prevention Act, and the other examines the protracted controversy over whether brain death should become a legal definition of death. Rejecting conventional accounts that recourse to rights is less important to resolving disputes than other cultural forms,The Ritual of Rights in Japan uses these contemporary cases to argue that the invocation of rights is a critical aspect of how conflicts are articulated and resolved.--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages)
Contents
  • "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
  • Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society
  • 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
  • Rights in Japanese history
  • A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan
  • Rights, modernization, and the "uniqueness" of the Japanese legal system
  • Rights and the metaphor of legal transplants
  • 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
Isbn
9780511495465
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495465
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The ritual of rights in Japan : law, society, and health policy
Title
The ritual of rights in Japan
Title remainder
law, society, and health policy
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Eric A. Feldman
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
The Ritual of Rights in Japan challenges the conventional wisdom that the assertion of rights is fundamentally incompatible with Japanese legal, political and social norms. It discusses the creation of a Japanese translation of the word 'rights', Kenri; examines the historical record for words and concepts similar to 'rights'; and highlights the move towards recognising patients' rights in the 1960s and 1970s. Two policy studies are central to the book. One concentrates on Japan's 1989 AIDS Prevention Act, and the other examines the protracted controversy over whether brain death should become a legal definition of death. Rejecting conventional accounts that recourse to rights is less important to resolving disputes than other cultural forms,The Ritual of Rights in Japan uses these contemporary cases to argue that the invocation of rights is a critical aspect of how conflicts are articulated and resolved.--
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Feldman, Eric A
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non fiction
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dictionaries
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  • Cambridge studies in law and society
  • Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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  • AIDS (Disease)
  • Dead bodies (Law)
  • Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
  • Actions and defenses
  • Law
Label
The ritual of rights in Japan : law, society, and health policy, Eric A. Feldman, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495465
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • "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
  • Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society
  • 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
  • Rights in Japanese history
  • A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan
  • Rights, modernization, and the "uniqueness" of the Japanese legal system
  • Rights and the metaphor of legal transplants
  • 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
Control code
CR9780511495465
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9780511495465
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)70743418
Label
The ritual of rights in Japan : law, society, and health policy, Eric A. Feldman, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495465
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • "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
  • Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society
  • 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
  • Rights in Japanese history
  • A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan
  • Rights, modernization, and the "uniqueness" of the Japanese legal system
  • Rights and the metaphor of legal transplants
  • 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
Control code
CR9780511495465
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9780511495465
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)70743418

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