Kimura R
Department of Health Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
J Med Philos. 1989 Aug;14(4):457-64. doi: 10.1093/jmp/14.4.457.
Although ethics committees in Japan have been developing in major medical schools and in some hospitals, their members are usually medical professionals from the same institution. The lack of national legislation for setting up ethics committees permits only a voluntary code of standards for doing clinical research work in high tech medical applications. The author argues for the necessity of more open debate on bioethical issues and proposes the participation of the lay public and bioethicists in Ethics Committee in Japan.
尽管日本的伦理委员会已在主要医学院校和一些医院中逐步发展起来，但委员会成员通常来自同一机构的医学专业人士。由于缺乏设立伦理委员会的国家立法，在高科技医疗应用中开展临床研究工作只能遵循自愿性的标准规范。作者主张有必要就生物伦理问题展开更广泛的公开辩论，并提议让普通公众和生物伦理学家参与到日本的伦理委员会中。
