Influence of religious and spiritual values on the willingness of Chinese-Americans to donate organs for transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 449-456

  Lam, Wilbur Aaron ^a   McCullough, Laurence B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Americans; Asian; Attitude; Buddhism; Chinese; Christianity; Confucianism; Cultural; Daoism; Organ donation; Religion; Taoism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MINORITY GROUP; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHILOSOPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; BUDDHISM; CHINA; CHRISTIANITY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033809551     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2000.140502.x     Document Type: Article

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