@article{oai:kumadai.repo.nii.ac.jp:00030982,
 author = {バウアー, トビアス and Bauer, Tobias and バウアー, トビアス and Bauer, Tobias},
 issue = {3},
 journal = {Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {application/pdf, 論文(Article), This paper approaches the question “What is medical?” from the viewpoint of religious studies. Religious factors seem to play a significant role in discussing whether a certain mental or physical condition should be considered to require or justify human interference by means of medical treatment or not. In the current debate on medical ethics, religious aspects exert their influence not only through attitudes and beliefs of individuals, but also in the form of answers that religious organizations and denominations try to formulate in response to the new challenges in the medical field. To shed some light on how religious denominations engage in this debate on the boundaries of the legitimacy of medical treatment, this paper focuses on the discussion of brain death and organ transplantation in Japanese Buddhism. After some preliminary remarks on the links between Buddhist tradition and medical treatment in general, arguing that Buddhism is in principle affirmative of medical practice, this paper analyzes some of the arguments introduced by Buddhist denominations into the Japanese debate on brain death and organ transplantation. Its main focus lies on the analysis of the official position announced by the Sōtō-school (Report on the Problem of ‘Brain Death and Organ Transplantation’, Sōtō-school Head Office 1999), a major sect of Japanese Buddhism, as one example of how Japanese Buddhists refer to their traditional patterns of thinking and reasoning and how they actualize and reinterpret their view against their traditional doctrine (for example, soteriological conceptions, views of body, life and death, ethical concepts such as the forbidding of harming/killing, etc)., http://www.eubios.info/EJAIB.htm},
 pages = {58--64},
 title = {Medical treatment and Buddhism – Reflections from the discussion on brain death and organ transplantation in Japanese Buddhism},
 volume = {20},
 year = {2010},
 yomi = {バウアー, トビアス and バウアー, トビアス}
}