Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-58

  Asad, Asad L ^a   Anteby, Michel ^b   Garip, Filiz ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Gender; Migration status; Organ donation; United States; Whole body donation

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENDER RELATIONS; MEDICINE; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; BIRTHPLACE; CADAVER DONOR; CAUCASIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRATION; ORGAN DONOR; PARENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTRATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WHOLE BODY DONOR;

CALIFORNIA; IRVINE; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; SAN FRANCISCO [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENDER; MIGRATION STATUS; ORGAN DONATION; UNITED STATES; WHOLE-BODY DONATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CADAVER; CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84896812427     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.041     Document Type: Article

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