NEITHER A ‘PERSON’ NOR A ‘THING’: THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE MORAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF HUMAN EMBRYOS IN JAPAN
NEITHER A ‘PERSON’ NOR A ‘THING’: THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE MORAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF HUMAN EMBRYOS IN JAPAN
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既不是“人”也不是“物”：关于日本人类胚胎的道德和法律地位的争议
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10.1142/9781848164383_0015
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2010
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A. Akabayashi
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作者：
S. Kodama;A. Akabayashi
自1997年多利羊诞生以来，日本的人类胚胎研究取得了一些进展。这些发展包括在科学和技术政策委员会之下成立了生物伦理委员会;发表了两份报告：《关于通过克隆生产人类个体》和《关于以人类胚胎干细胞为重点的人类胚胎研究》;以及颁布了《关于管理人类克隆技术和其他类似技术的法律》。本章总结和审查这些发展的重点讨论theBioethics委员会。本章还探讨了人类胚胎研究的倡导者和怀疑者之间发生的冲突。本章的结论是，虽然在讨论中出现了几个问题，theBioethics Committee设法以一种明显的“日本方式”达成妥协。通过将人类胚胎描述为“人类生命的萌芽”，委员会找到了一种折衷的解决方案，部分来自其他西方司法管辖区，允许进行受监管的胚胎研究。
Since the birth of Dolly the sheep in 1997, several developments have shaped human embryo research in Japan. These developments include the establishment of theBioethics Committeeunder theCouncil for Science and Technology Policy; the release of the two reports: ‘Regarding the Production of Human Individuals Through Cloning’, and ‘Regarding Human Embryo Research Focusing Primarily on Human Embryonic Stem Cells'; and the enactment of ‘The Law Concerning Regulation Relating to Human Cloning Techniques and Other Similar Techniques'. This chapter summarises and examines these developments with focus on the discussions of theBioethics Committee. It also examines the conflicts that took place between advocates and sceptics of human embryo research.The chapter concludes that although several issues surfaced during the discussions, theBioethics Committeemanaged to reach a compromise in a distinctly ‘Japanese way’. By describing human embryos as the ‘sprout of human life’, theCommitteefound an eclectic solution, in part imported from other Western jurisdictions, which allowed regulated embryo research to proceed.