THE FUTURE OF LIFE AND DEATH

published : 2007

Eve-Marie Engels

Preface

　　　　　　

Programm

　　　　　　　　　

TOPIC 1 　　　　PERFECTIONING THE HUMAN BODY

Shigeyuki Akiyama

Is Genetic Enhancement Education?: On the “Genetification” of Society and the Human Condition

Satoru Kimura

Enhancement for Whom?

Elfriede Walcher-Andris

“Is good not good enough?”: Psychostimulants in cognitionenhancement and its ethical implications

　　　　　　

TOPIC 2 　　　　 HUMAN PERSONS AND NATURAL DETERMINATION 　

Daniel Strech

How Factual Do We Like the Facts in Death and Life Studies? Challenges for a Responsible and Critical Empirical Ethics

Cordula Brand

Personal Identity - A Guideline for Practical Moral Reasoning?

Tamara Matuz

Ethical Problems in the Care of Severely Paralyzed Patients: Neuropsychological and empirical aspects

　　　　　　　　　

TOPIC 3 　　　 BIOETHICS AND ECONOMICS 　　　　　

Takashi Asao

Situation of Medical Economics in Japan

Jochen Fehling

A Monetary Assessment of Death Risks in the Health System?: Proposal for an embedding of the concept of the Value of a Statistical Life into a participative process of political decision making

　　　　　　　　　

TOPIC 4 　　　　PGD

Ken’ichi Maegawa

“A Defense of Selective Abortion

Atsushi Tsuchiya

“PGD” in a View of Criticism against Eugenics in Japan: The analysis of social attitude toward PGD in Japan

Kayoko Yamamoto

Application of PGD in Japan

Bert Heinrichs

PGD in Germany and its Ethical Problems

Erik Schicketanz

Summary of Post-Panel Discussions