| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in law and society
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Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Reconsidering rights in Japanese law and society -- Rights in Japanese history -- Roots of "rights" -- Rights before kenri: early antecedents -- Rights, protest, and rebellion in Tokugawa Japan -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Japan. |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients. |
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Dead bodies (Law) -- Japan.
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Dead bodies (Law) |
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Law and legislation -- Japan.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Law and legislation. |
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Actions and defenses -- Japan.
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Actions and defenses. |
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Law -- Social aspects -- Japan.
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Law -- Social aspects. |
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Law. |
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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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Japan. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Feldman, Eric A. Ritual of rights in Japan. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 (DLC) 99023257 |
| ISBN |
0521770408 (hardback) |
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9780521770408 (hardback) |
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0521779642 (paperback) |
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9780521779647 (paperback) |
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0511172877 (electronic book) |
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9780511172878 (electronic book) |
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0511011881 (electronic book) |
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9780511011887 (electronic book) |
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9780511495465 (electronic book) |
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0511495463 (electronic book) |
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9780511049316 (electronic book) |
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0511049315 (electronic book) |
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0511151772 |
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9780511151774 |
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