著者
美馬 達哉
出版者
日本スポーツ社会学会
雑誌
スポーツ社会学研究 (ISSN:09192751)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, no.1, pp.7-18, 2015-03-30 (Released:2016-06-03)
参考文献数
15

「治療を超えて」生物医学的テクノロジーを健常人に対して用いることで、認知能力や運動能力を向上させようとする試みは、「エンハンスメント(Enhancement)」として1990年代後半以降から社会学や生命倫理学の領域で注目を集めている。とくにスポーツの分野では、新しいトレーニング手法、エンハンスメント、ドーピング、身体改造などの境界は問題含みの混乱状況にある。本稿では、医療社会学の観点から、まず、カンギレムの『正常と病理』での議論を援用して、正常、異常、病理、アノマリーなどの諸概念を整理し、正常/異常が文化的・社会的な価値概念であることを明確化した。 次に、スポーツと身体能力のエンハンスメントに力点を置いて、エンハンスメントをめぐる生命倫理学での議論を概観した。病者への治療(トリートメント:treatment)と健常者へのエンハンスメントを対比して、前者を肯定し後者を否定して線引きする伝統的な議論では不十分であることを、具体的実例を挙げて示した。また、資質と努力の賜物としての達成(アチーブメント:achievement)とエンハンスメントを対比して、前者の徳としての重要性を指摘する議論を紹介した。加えて、本稿は、エンハンスメントの根本問題とは何かという点で、現代社会のテクノロジーによる人間的自然の支配こそが再考されなければならないという視点に立って、エンハンスメントを超える展望を提示した。
著者
大山 貴稔
出版者
国際開発学会
雑誌
国際開発研究 (ISSN:13423045)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.30, no.1, pp.33-47, 2021-06-30 (Released:2021-07-27)
参考文献数
63
被引用文献数
1

In 2015, the Development Cooperation Charter, which clearly stated “ensuring Japan's national interests” as part of the “objectives of development cooperation,” was decided by Japan's Cabinet. This charter triggered debates on what the purpose of development cooperation policy should be and why “ensuring Japan's national interests” was specified. What these studies revealed was a synchronic link-age with the policies undertaken by the Abe administration at the time, which meant that the social norms of altruism, that development cooperation policies should be implemented for the welfare of others, had already faded. When and how did the social norms of altruism weaken with regard to Japan's development cooperation policy? In this paper, I examine the period from the 1970s to the early 2000s, in order to clarify the process of normative transition from altruism to self-interest through historical discourse analysis. Altruism here is defined as a social norm constructed by discourses that emphasize the humanitarian aspects of aid, positioning development cooperation policies as a means to fulfill international “responsibilities” and “contributions.” Self-interest, on the other hand, is defined as a social norm constructed by discourses that encourages “Japan's visible assistance” based on “national interests ”and“ strategy.” This analysis mainly revealed that (1) as early as the 1980s, the slump in plant exports triggered the Japan Business Federation to ask the Japanese government for“Japan's visible assistance ”based on “national interests” and “strategies,” (2) around the mid-1990s, fiscal retrenchment and the securitization of Northeast Asia led to the spread of self-interest social norm in Japanese society. These results reveal that the foregrounding of self-interest was a process of re-enforcing the linkage between development cooperation policies and domestic economic conditions, which in turn suggests the contemporary question of whether there is any alternative form of linkage between development cooperation policies and domestic conditions.
著者
冨川 多佳子
出版者
英米文化学会
雑誌
英米文化 (ISSN:09173536)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, pp.37-53, 2021

<p>This paper examines the purpose of missionary work to "Gypsies" by "domestic evangelical groups" who carried out evangelical missionary activities in England in the early 19th century. The home missionary society criticized the imprisonment of the Gypsies as "vagrants" and argued that in order to change their nature of wandering, it was necessary for them to live a civilized life and not be imprisoned. It was hoped that this method of missionary activities could be tried in the United States. However, Sarah Nicolasso, who studied the transition of the legal definition of "vagrants", notes that the specific "race" group "Gypsy" was stipulated as "Vagrant" in the "Vagrant" Control Law. She points out that it worked effectively as a means to create a "racist" yet conceptually flexible, judicial-controlled space in the colonial United States. Since the 16th century, Gypsies had been legally categorized into a comprehensive definition of "homeless", and the "racial" characteristic of Gypsies had been used to justify policies and the like. In the early 19th century, the missionary work on Gypsies was justified as a method of denying this vague definition.</p>
著者
松田 正貴
出版者
日本英語表現学会
雑誌
英語表現研究 (ISSN:09104275)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, pp.57-86, 2021

<p>Agatha Christie (1890-1976) has long been axiomatically referred to as "the mistress of mystery," but it is not widely known that this world-famous author was also a poet. She had sent her poems to <i>The Poetry Review,</i> some of which had been printed in the magazine before she made her debut as a mystery writer with her first novel <i>The Mysterious Affair at Styles</i> (1920). Furthermore, she had a collection of poems—<i>The Road of Dreams</i> (1925)—published through a presumably private-funded way five years after she got into the storytelling business. This means that her creative impetus in her early years was basically for poetry. Then, what on earth brought Christie, who had started writing poems during her adolescence, to the genre of detective novels? How did poetry come to terms with mystery in her case? In this paper I would like to elucidate these issues by examining Christie's early imaginative visions represented in her poems and to reveal some connection between her poetry and stories. My main focus is, above all, on her attachment to the characters in pantomimes, such as Harlequin, Columbine, and Pierrot, which is clearly seen in her poem 'A Masque from Italy' that might be a prototype of her later narratives.</p>