[12-2] Ethical knowledge from lecturer with cervical spinal cord injury: Experience of the cervical spinal cord injury by traffic accident and ethics on use of aborted fetus in the regenerative treatment
Presentation language：English
This study was conducted on juniors majoring in the Department of Social Welfare who are taking the Nursing Teacher Training Course. The purpose was to elucidate what students can learn from a lecture on a personal “accident experience” and a lecture containing universal content, “Ethics Over the Use of Aborted Fetuses,” by a special lecturer who has suffered cervical spinal cord injury in a traffic accident. In conducting the study, students’ reports about thoughts and learnings after each lecture were analyzed. Consequently, their learnings were largely categorized into two types. (1) Learnings from the special lecturer who has experienced an accident. Students showed “empathy” and “fear,” as women of the same generation, towards the fully functioning body suddenly becoming immobile accidently. They also praised and respected the “efforts.” (2) As for learnings from ethical issues regarding the use of aborted fetuses for spinal regeneration researches, students mentioned the importance of ethical thinking, although stances and opinions differ among individuals involved, administrative bodies, and women’s organizations. Students were lectured on “bioethics” through detailed case examples from the lecturer and learned about ethical issues by relating them with personal experiences and opinions.