Vol.1 Toward the Construction of Death and Life Studies

First edition, 2005

Susumu Shimazono

Foreword

PART ONE

DEATH AND LIFE STUDIES AND APPLIED ETHICS:THE BEGGINNING OF LIFE AND VIEWS OF DEATH AND LIFE

Julian Savulescu

Rational Morality, the New Genetics, and the Human Person

Miho Ogino

Leading Reproductive Technology and the Feminist Dilemma

Susumu Shimazono

Life as an Individual, Life in the Process of Interactions

Hideyuki Yahata

What Does a Fetus Mean to Us?: Reconsidering Prenatal Diagnosis

PART TWO

BIOSIENCE AND SPRITUALITY: A NEW APPROACH TO BIOETHICS

William B. Hurlbut

Cloning. Embryos, and Ethics

Susumu Shimazono

The Dignity of Human Life and the Spirituality of the Human Race

Shinzo Kato

Spirituality in Bioscience

PART THREE

THE COEXISTENCE OF THE DEAD AND THE LIVING

Guenther Poeltner

Aspekte gegenwaertigen Philosophischen Todesverstaendnisses

Stephen F. Teiser

Circles and Lines: The Geometry of Death in Buddhism

James H. Foard

The Fate of the Twentieth-century Dead

Gaynor Sekimori

Life and Death in Japanese Religious Practice

The Authors

DALS Organization