| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in law and society |
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Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Contents |
Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society -- Rights in Japanese history -- The roots of "rights" -- Rights before kenri: early antecedents -- Rights, protest, and rebellion in Tokugawa Japan -- The Movement for Freedom and Popular Rights -- State power and the control of rights -- Patients, rights, and protest in contemporary Japan -- "New rights" movements and traditional social protest -- Studying the "new rights" -- Patients' rights as "new rights": conceptualization, litigation, legislation -- Law, rights, and policy in contemporary Japan: two narratives -- AIDS policy and the politics of rights -- AIDS, public health, and individual rights -- An epidemiological view -- Hemophiliacs and gay men: rights, risks, and repression -- Proposal, debate, and enactment of the AIDS prevention law -- AIDS, activism, and accommodation -- Asserting rights, legislating death -- Rights, brain death, and organ transplantation -- Death, culture, and body parts -- Scientific, legal, medical, and political attempts to define death -- Power politics and body politics: the Ad-Hoc Committee for the Study of Brain Death and Organ Transplantation -- A tentative truce in the fight over death -- Litigation and the courts: talking about rights -- Rights and the legal process -- AIDS: crisis, compensation, and the courts -- Brain death and organ transplantation: accusation and discretion -- A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan -- Rights, modernization, and the "uniqueness" of the Japanese legal system -- Rights and the metaphor of legal transplants |
| Summary |
The Ritual of Rights in Japan rejects the traditional view that Japan is a nation where overt conflict and the assertion of rights are unacceptable. It examines both historical events and contemporary policy, in concluding that rights-based conflict is an important part of Japanese legal, political, and social practice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan
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Dead bodies (Law) -- Japan
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Law and legislation -- Japan
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Actions and defenses -- Japan
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Law -- Social aspects -- Japan
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AIDS (Disease)
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Organ Transplantation
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Patient Advocacy -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Public Policy
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Reference.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
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AIDS (Disease)
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Actions and defenses
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Dead bodies (Law)
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Law -- Social aspects
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Law and legislation
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Gesundheitspolitik
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Soziale Situation
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Aidskranker
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Recht
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Transplantation
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AIDS.
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Patiëntenrecht.
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Rechtssociologie.
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Sidéens -- Statut juridique -- Japon.
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Cadavres (droit) -- Japon.
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Sida -- Japon.
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Actions et défenses -- Japon.
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Politique sanitaire -- Japon.
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Droit -- Aspect social -- Japon.
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Japan |
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Japan
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0521770408 |
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9780521770408 |
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0521779642 |
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9780521779647 |
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0511172877 |
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9780511172878 |
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9781280421136 |
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0511303203 |
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9780511303203 |
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