Reflections on Cultural Preferences and Internal Medicine: The Case of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Changing Thresholds for Blood Transfusions
Jehovah’s witnesses oppose receiving blood transfusions based on religious grounds. This refusal raises complex medical, legal and ethical issues for the treating medical staff. In the past physicians attempted to force patients and children to accept transfusions when deemed medically necessary thr...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2017]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 732-738 |
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Hemoglobin threshold
B Jehovah’s witness B Blood aversion B Blood transfusion |
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