Development of Meta-Bioethics : Studies on the Origin of Bioethics in the United States and Its Introduction in Japan

该研究项目考察了起源于美国、后来传入日本的生物伦理学的特点。由于在生命伦理学领域缺乏文明理论、历史学、元科学、经济学批判和生物权力的视角，我们从日本的视角探讨了生命伦理学的可能改革，并在日本应用。该项目的研究和讨论成果被编入了由项目成员共同撰写的《元生物伦理学的发展：再次询问生物伦理学》一书，NTT出版社，2010年。此外，通过阅读相关文献和口述历史研究，项目成员研究了生物伦理学首次引入日本的20世纪70年代和80年代的日本科学、思想、宗教和政治。这种方法在国内外都是前所未有的，因此在书评和相关会议上享有很高的声誉。

This research project examined the characteristics of bioethics as originated in the United States and later imported to Japan. As there has been a lack of perspective in regards to civilization theory, history, meta-sciences, criticism of economics, and bio-power in the field of bioethics, we explored possible reforms of bioethics from a Japanese perspective and for application in Japan. Outcomes of the research and discussions of this project were woven into the book, "For Development of Meta-Bioethics : Inquiring Bioethics Again," NTT Press, 2010, co-authored by the project members. Also, through reading related literature and oral-history research, project members examined Japanese science, thought, religion and politics of the 1970s and 1980s when bioethics was first introduced into Japan. This approach was unprecedented at home and abroad and thus was highly reputed through book reviews and related conferences.