Akira Akabayashi, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine and Director of UT-CBEL (University of Tokyo Center of Biomedical Ethics and Law).
Footnotes
The author thanks Drs. Y. Hayashi of the University of Tokyo and D. Zion of Monash University for their insightful comments. The short version of this piece originally appeared as a rapid response (http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1987/reply#bmj_el_256812) in BMJ.