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Bioethics and Medical Law Lab
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A lab that examines the ethical and legal issues in advanced medical science research and clinical practice.
AboutAbout the lab
Questioning the ethics and law of medicine and research
The Bioethics and Medical Law Lab studies the ethical and social issues that arise in advanced medical science research and clinical practice, as well as the legal issues surrounding research and medical care.
Medical law is the field of law concerning medicine and healthcare, and some of its topics overlap with bioethics.
The lab's research methods center on literature review, including administrative documents from other countries, legal interpretation, and analysis of court cases.
As research ethics specialists at the Institute of Medical Science, the lab also provides research ethics consultation, in which people involved in clinical research bring questions on matters such as ethics review.
Key terms
- Medical law
- A branch of law dealing with medicine and healthcare. Many of its topics overlap with bioethics.
- ELSI
- An acronym for Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues. These issues are considered before new science and technology is put to use in society.
- Research ethics consultation
- An activity in which specialists give advice to researchers who run into ethical or legal problems in research planning or ethics review.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) surrounding advanced medical science research and clinical practice through literature review and legal interpretation. Topics include assisted reproductive technologies, births made possible by advanced technologies, biobanks, and medicine and clinical research from a gender perspective.
*Illustrative imageEthics of Fetal Therapy Research
Technologies that treat fetal diseases before birth must be developed carefully as clinical research. In analyzing research involving pregnant women and fetuses, the lab examined who the research subject is and who bears the risk, and reached a conclusion based on the "Fetal-Maternal Complex Model" approach.
*Illustrative imageEthics and Law of Infectious Disease Research
In collaboration with the Public Policy lab, and as a research project of the Center for Next-Generation Infectious Diseases (UTOPIA), the lab addressed the ethical, legal, and social issues involved in developing vaccines quickly. It examined the legal issues of conducting human infection model (CHIM) trials in Japan.
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- Associate ProfessorWaki ToyaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images.
- Top image: “Indiana Supreme Court Law Library rare books shelf” Dominic / CC0 (cropped)
- Ethics of Fetal Therapy Research: “A pregnant woman's silhouette (Unsplash OghefWjG96w)” Joey Thompson joewthompson / CC0 (cropped)
- Ethics and Law of Infectious Disease Research: “Syringe Needle IV” Psychonaught / Public domain (cropped)
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