Reluctant Rulers: Policy, Politics and Assisted Reproduction Technology in Japan
Reluctant Rulers: Policy, Politics and Assisted Reproduction Technology in Japan
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不情愿的统治者：日本的政策、政治和辅助生殖技术
DOI：
10.1017/s0963180122000603
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Croydon Silvia
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作者：
Croydon Silvia
本文将焦点放在世界上最大的人工生殖技术（ART）产业-日本，试图解释政府的异常迟缓，安装一个全面的法律的框架，规范这些做法。通过与活跃在这一领域的有影响力的医学家的谈话记录，以及官方文件，媒体报道和对主要医生的采访，本文重建了导致2020年12月颁布《辅助生殖技术法》的历史轨迹。提交人认为，只有在对该法颁布前二十年所发生的情况进行概述的背景下，才能理解为什么该法在规定方面如此缺乏和含糊其辞，实际上没有改变日本医生在抗逆转录病毒疗法应用中自我监管的社会和道德不良状况。这篇文章增加了可信度的假设，关于新兴技术的监管治理问题，更广泛地说，旅行的方向是朝着软，而不是硬，法律。
This article puts the spotlight on the world’s largest artificial reproduction technology (ART) industry—that of Japan, seeking to explain the exceptional tardiness of the government there to install a comprehensive legal framework that regulates these practices. By relying on minutes from a conversation with an influential parliamentarian active in this area, as well as official documents, media reports, and an interview conducted with key physicians, the article reconstructs the historical trajectory leading to the enactment in December 2020 of the Assisted Reproduction Technology Act. The author contends that it is only on the background of an overview of what happened in the two decades preceding the promulgation of this Act that a sense can be made of why the latter came to be as scant and evasive as it is in terms of provisions, de facto leaving unaltered the socially and ethically undesirable situation of self-regulation in ART application by the Japanese doctors. This article adds credence to the hypothesis with regard to the issue of regulatory governance of emerging technologies more broadly that the direction of travel is toward soft, as opposed to hard, law.