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Professor Rihito Kimura--Present Post-- Professor of Bioethics and Law, Department of Human Health Sciences, School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo and Tokorozawa in Japan.Director, International / Asian Bioethics Pogram, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The Adjunct Professor at Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical school, Washington, D.C. International Ethics Advisory Committee member of CIOMS (Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences / WHO) The committee member of the editorial staff of "Medical Humanity's Review" (the Medical cultural sciences laboratory at Texas University) Chairperson, Hospital Ethics Committee of Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and Committee Member, Council for Welfare and Health Policy Science, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Government of Japan. --Specialty-- Bioethics / Basic and Clinical Bioethics, Comparative Law, Human Rights and Bioethical issues.--The Subject of Study-- Basic theory of Bioethics / A clinical case analysis and study.
--A Brief Summary of the Career -- Rihito Kimura was born in Tokyo,1934.He graduated from the department of law and completed the doctoral course (the post graduate course of law) at Waseda University (Tokyo). Then, taught and had research work at various universities in Asia, Europe, and U.S.A. and Japan. He was a professor of Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Saigon University (Vietnam), the graduate school of Geneva University (Switzerland), Associate Director of The Ecumenical Institute of WCC (World Council of Churches) and a visiting scholar at The Centre for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University. Since 1980 onward, he has held the directorship of International Asian Bioethics Program at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.
If you click some book-windows, you can find out some English papers and documents written by Prof. Kimura. "iwanami-houshakaigaku-kouza,the10th volume" ("The Iwanami lecture of the Social jurisprudence"), joint authorship, Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, Inc., 1973. "Bioethics-towa-nanika" ("What is Bioethics?"), Kitasato University, Tokyo, 1980. "Seimeikagaku-wa-Iryou-wo-kaeruka" ("Bioscience changes Medical care?"), joint authorship, Tokyo: Koudansha, Inc., 1984. "Seimeikougaku-eno-Keikoku" ("The warning against Biotechnology"), translation supervised, Tokyo: Ie-no-Hikari Corporation, 1984. "Health Policy, Ethics and Human values?FAn International Dialogue", joint authorship, Geneve: WHO-CIOMS, 1985.  "Inochi-wo-kangaeru: Bioethics-no-susume" ("The consideration to life: The proposition of Bioethics"), publ. Nihon-hyouron-sha, Inc., Tokyo, 1987. (Of course, his seminar students read this book many times.) "Genetic Councelling in the World (Ethics and Human Genetics: A Cross-Cultural Perspectives)", joint authorship, New York: Pergamon Press, 1987. "Bioethics in the International Community", joint authorship, Elsevier Science Publishers (Biomedical division), joint authorship, 1988. "Bioethical and Socio-legal Aspects of the Elderly in Japan: with Special Reference to Life-Sustaining Technologies", joint authorship, Waseda University Press, 1988. "Fiduciary Relationships and the Medical Profession: A Japanese Point of View", Georgetown University Press, 1991. "Jurisprudence in Genetics", joint authorship, Springer-Verlag, Heiderberg, W.G., 1991. "Conflict and Harmony in Japanese Medicine: A Challenge to Traditional Culture in Neonatal Care", joint authorship, University Publishing Group, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, 1993. "Asian Perspectives: Experimentation on Human Subjects in Japan-Bioethical Perspectives in a Cultural Context", joint authorship, Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, Geneve, 1993. "Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit: Die veregessene Geschichte Japan", joint authorship, Ethik und Medizin: Was leistet die Kodifizierung von Ethik?, Wallsterin Verlag, Gottingen, Germany, 1997. In addition, many documents and papers in English, German and Chinese. |
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