Reluctant Rulers
Policy, Politics, and Assisted Reproduction Technology in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21598538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Croydon, Silvia Atanassova Croydon (0000-0003-4356-6576, Osaka University of Human Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-299 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-1801 • E-ISSN: 1469-2147 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0963180122000603 |
| PMID | 36468326 |
| OpenAlex | W4310703433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article puts the spotlight on the world’s largest artificial reproduction technology (ART) industry—that of Japan, seeking to explain the exceptional tardiness of the government there to install a comprehensive legal framework that regulates these practices. By relying on minutes from a conversation with an influential parliamentarian active in this area, as well as official documents, media reports, and an interview conducted with key physicians, the article reconstructs the historical trajectory leading to the enactment in December 2020 of the Assisted Reproduction Technology Act. The author contends that it is only on the background of an overview of what happened in the two decades preceding the promulgation of this Act that a sense can be made of why the latter came to be as scant and evasive as it is in terms of provisions, de facto leaving unaltered the socially and ethically undesirable situation of self-regulation in ART application by the Japanese doctors. This article adds credence to the hypothesis with regard to the issue of regulatory governance of emerging technologies more broadly that the direction of travel is toward soft, as opposed to hard, law
Conversation · Corporate governance · Credence · Economics · Emerging technologies · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Promulgation · Public relations · Reproduction · Sociology · Law · Reproductive Biology and Fertility · Reproductive Health and Technologies
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |