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| Japan to Allow Organ Transplants | ||
| 作者 | Wise, Jacqui (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The BMJ |
| 卷期 | v.314 n.7090 |
| 出版日期 | 1997.05 |
| 頁次 | 1297 - 1297 |
| 出版者 | British Medical Association (BMA) |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.bma.org.uk/ |
| 出版地 | London, England, UK [倫敦, 英格蘭, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Organ Transplantation; Japan |
| 摘要 | The lower house of the Japanese parliament has voted to officially recognise the concept of brain death, paving the way for heart transplants to occur for the first time in the country. Japan's major law making body voted by 320 to 148 to allow a person to be declared dead when his or her brain stops functioning. Previously, a person's heart had to stop for death to be declared, which made heart transplants impossible. For many years the issue was considered to be too controversial to bring to parliament. Although Japan's two main religions, Buddhism and Shinto, do not ethically object to the concept of brain death, there has been considerable cultural resistance to donating or receiving organs. Many people believe that a person's body and soul are linked and that, in giving up an organ, a person gives up his or her soul. There are also superstitions about “defiling” the body before it reaches the next world. |
| ISSN | 09598138 (P); 17561833 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmj.314.7090.1297b |
| 點閱次數 | 114 |
| 建檔日期 | 1999.04.29 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.07.28 |
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