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By May of 1990 when I first traveled to Kyoto and met Dr. Kazumasa Hoshino, he was already organizing his Third International Bioethics Symposium (Hoshino, 1991). He was, by then, not only a distinguished physician of Kyoto University, he was also an internationally recognized leader in the study of bioethics. He has been particularly insightful in recognizing the national uniqueness of the conceptualization of the roles of patient and health care provider and the various bioethical traditions that surround them. Perhaps it is because of his experience with and understanding of the traditions of Western medicine that he has been so helpful in articulating the uniqueness of Japanese medical relations.
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Veatch, R.M. (2002). The Physician: Professional or Entrepreneur. In: Engelhardt, H.T., Rasmussen, L.M. (eds) Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0902-6_2
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