Ishihara Kenji, Takeichi Hisako, Iwase Hirotaro
Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan.
Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan.
Leg Med (Tokyo). 2014 Mar;16(2):110-3. doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.01.001. Epub 2014 Jan 12.
'Guidelines for Notification of Unnatural Death', published by the Japanese Society of Legal Medicine (JSLM) in 1994, has been sometimes criticised by many doctors and lawyers. In various countries, laws specify the type of deaths that should undergo post-mortem examination. The centralized system of reporting death deals with treatment-related deaths. Although the JSLM Guidelines are based on such international norms, the dispute over reporting unnatural deaths in Japan goes against the dominant global trend. One way of solving these issues is to ensure that the police transform their own death investigation apparatus to delink it from criminal investigations. And we need to press for a system that can give the information obtained in investigations back to society, such as to the medical world or other public organisations.
日本法医学协会（JSLM）于1994年发布的《非自然死亡通报指南》有时受到许多医生和律师的批评。在各个国家，法律规定了应进行尸检的死亡类型。集中式死亡报告系统处理与治疗相关的死亡。尽管JSLM指南基于此类国际规范，但日本在非自然死亡报告方面的争议与全球主流趋势背道而驰。解决这些问题的一种方法是确保警方改造其自身的死亡调查机构，使其与刑事调查脱钩。而且我们需要推动建立一个能够将调查中获得的信息反馈给社会的系统，比如反馈给医学界或其他公共组织。
