Culture, conflict, and cost: Perspectives on brain death in japan

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 447-463

  Feldman, Eric A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW;

AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION (JAPAN); CONSENSUS; COSTS AND BENEFITS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DETERMINATION OF DEATH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; JAPAN; ORGAN DONATION; PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; RELIGIOUS ETHICS; STANDARDS; TRUST; VALUES;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ATTITUDE; BRAIN DEATH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMAN; JAPAN; ORGAN PROCUREMENT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATERNALISM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0028279609     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: 14716348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026646230000667X     Document Type: Article

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