Human relationship oriented analysis of brain death

I presented the idea of life studies in 1988. You can read several papers in English on this website, but most of the essays, papers, and books on life studies have been written in Japanese, which are uploaded on the Japanese website. I am going to translate them into English one by one from this year. The followings are an outline of main works on life studies up until the present.

1) Human relationship oriented analysis of brain death.
In Brain Dead Person (1989), I maintained that brain death should be interpreted as a form of "human relationships." I paid special attention to the emotional aspect and the inner reality of the family members of a brain dead person. You can read the translation of Ch.1. Legal and sociological aspects can be found in Special Reports.

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What is Life Studies
(2004)
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