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Examines how rights-based conflict is important in Japanese law, politics and society. Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE RECONSIDERING RIGHTS IN JAPANESE LAW AND SOCIETY -- CHAPTER TWO RIGHTS IN JAPANESE HISTORY -- THE ROOTS OF ''RIGHTS'' -- RIGHTS BEFORE KENRI: EARLY ANTECEDENTS -- RIGHTS, PROTEST, AND REBELLION IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN -- THE MOVEMENT FOR FREEDOM AND POPULAR RIGHTS -- STATE POWER AND THE CONTROL OF RIGHTS -- CHAPTER THREE PATIENTS, RIGHTS, AND PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN -- ''NEW RIGHTS'' MOVEMENTS AND TRADITIONAL SOCIAL PROTEST -- STUDYING THE ''NEW RIGHTS'' -- PATIENTS' RIGHTS AS ''NEW RIGHTS'': CONCEPTUALIZATION, LITIGATION, LEGISLATION -- LAW, RIGHTS, AND POLICY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: TWO NARRATIVES -- CHAPTER FOUR AIDS POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF RIGHTS -- AIDS, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS -- AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL VIEW -- HEMOPHILIACS AND GAY MEN: RIGHTS, RISKS, AND REPRESSION -- Hemophiliacs -- Gay men -- PROPOSAL, DEBATE, AND ENACTMENT OF THE AIDS PREVENTION LAW -- A ''foreign disease'' enters Japan -- AIDS legislation: the first draft -- Public health and infectious disease laws -- AIDS legislation: the second draft -- The hemophiliac relief fund -- Final revision and passage of the aids prevention law -- AIDS, ACTIVISM, AND ACCOMMODATION -- IMMIGRATION CONTROLS -- Discrimination -- Medical treatment, testing, and patients' rights -- CHAPTER FIVE ASSERTING RIGHTS, LEGISLATING DEATH -- RIGHTS, BRAIN DEATH, AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- DEATH, CULTURE, AND BODY PARTS -- Religious/traditional views of death -- Brain death and tradition in Japan -- SCIENTIFIC, LEGAL, MEDICAL, AND POLITICAL ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE DEATH -- POWER POLITICS AND BODY POLITICS: THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- A TENTATIVE TRUCE IN THE FIGHT OVER DEATH -- CHAPTER SIX LITIGATION AND THE COURTS: TALKING ABOUT RIGHTS.
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