From Agape to Organs: Religious Difference between Japan and America in Judging the Ethics of the Transplant
This essay argues that Japan's resistance to the practice of transplanting organs from persons deemed “brain dead” may not be the result, as some claim, of that society's religions being not yet sufficiently expressive of love and altruism. The violence to the body necessary for the excisi...
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| Language: | English |
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2002
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Zygon
Year: 2002, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 623-642 |
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B Ogiwara Makoto B Brain Death B Joseph Fletcher B window of opportunity B Jeremy Bentham B Utilitarianism B religious difference B cadavers B Bioethics B Organ Transplantation B Altruism B Cartesianism B autopsies B Buddhism B Agape B determination of death B Harvard Medical School B Confucianism B medical miracles |
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