The Ritual of Rights in Japan

Law, Society, and Health Policy

AvEric A. Feldman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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The Ritual of Rights in Japan challenges the conventional wisdom that the assertion of rights is fundamentally incompatible with Japanese legal, political and social norms. It discusses the creation of a Japanese translation of the word 'rights', Kenri; examines the historical record for words and concepts similar to 'rights'; and highlights the move towards recognising patients' rights in the 1960s and 1970s. Two policy studies are central to the book. One concentrates on Japan's 1989 AIDS Prevention Act, and the other examines the protracted controversy over whether brain death should become a legal definition of death. Rejecting conventional accounts that recourse to rights is less important to resolving disputes than other cultural forms,The Ritual of Rights in Japan uses these contemporary cases to argue that the invocation of rights is a critical aspect of how conflicts are articulated and resolved.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-03-30
Mått:159 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521770408

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Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

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'It is, in short, essential and provocative reading for all students of Japan.' Japanese Journal of Political Science

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society; 2. Rights in Japanese history; 3. Patients, rights and protest in contemporary Japan; 4. AIDS policy and the politics of rights; 5. Asserting rights, legislating death; 6. Litigation and the courts: talking about rights; 7. A sociolegal perspective on rights in Japan; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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