著者
Atsushi Asai Taketoshi Okita Aya Enzo Yasuhiro Kadooka
出版者
Ritsumeikan Center for Asia Pacific Studies
雑誌
Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (ISSN:13444204)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, no.1, pp.1-8, 2018 (Released:2022-06-15)
参考文献数
25

The 1945 Kyushu Imperial University human vivisections are among the most infamous of medical atrocities involving Japanese doctors. The Japanese novelist, Shusaku Endo published The Sea and Poison, a fiction novel based on the incident in 1958. His story features young doctors, Suguro and Toda, and depicts their motivations to join the killing, as well as their regrets or the lack thereof. Endo forces us to ponder why they involved themselves in the human vivisections and what might have dissuaded them from doing so. Even today we lack clear answers to these questions. This paper will present our deliberations on the contemporary implications of Endo’s questions and positions set forth in The Sea and Poison. We suggest that Suguro failed to refuse participation in the vivisection because of his emotional exhaustion and emptiness, which could have been caused by war, the doctors’ true colors, or the dark side of medicine. It is argued that Suguro is no different from many of us, and that Toda’s claim that we are, deep down, unmoved by the suffering and death of others describes part of our minds. The meaning of strong conscience and compassion is also discussed.
著者
Masae WADA Daisuke HASEGAWA Yuji HAMAMOTO Atsushi ASAI Akane SHOUJI James CHAMBERS Kazuyuki UCHIDA Michio FUJITA
出版者
公益社団法人 日本獣医学会
雑誌
Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.15-0116, (Released:2015-08-10)

A 12-year-old spayed female Labrador retriever was presented with forebrain signs. Brain MRI revealed a huge cystic lesion with the thickened falx in the frontal region. The brain parenchyma surrounding the lesion showed significant signs of a mass effect and also increased intracranial pressure. However, the dog suddenly became lucid after about two weeks, and an MRI scan one month after the initial study revealed a dramatically shrunken cystic lesion. The dog survived for over a year until it was euthanized for other reasons, and the brain lesion was diagnosed as a cystic meningioma histologically. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first report that described the reduction of the cystic lesion of a cystic meningioma in dogs.