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Gene Therapy in Japan: Current Trends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Kazumasa Hoshino
Kazumasa Hoshino
Affiliation:
Executive Director of the Liaison Society for Ethics Committees of Medical Schools in Japan; President of the Japan Association of Bioethics; and Director of the International Bioethics Research Center, Institute of Religion and Culture, Kyoto Women's University.
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The Japanese government took significant steps in making decisions about a newly developing clinical application of gene therapy when, on April 15, 1993, the Government officially accepted the Guidelines for Clinical Research on Gene Therapy submitted by the Health Science Council of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan to the Minister.

Type
Special Section: Designs on Life: Choice, Control, and Responsibility in Genetic Manipulation
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Summer 1995 , pp. 367 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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