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LEGAL STATUS OF BRAIN DEATH IN JAPAN: WHY MANY JAPANESE DO NOT ACCEPT “BRAIN DEATH” AS A DEFINITION OF DEATH
Author(s) -
HOSHINO KAZUMASA
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1993.tb00289.x
Subject(s) - brain dead , organ donation , population , psychology , medicine , transplantation , surgery , environmental health
Several speculations on the reasoning for the lack of performance of organ transplants from brain-dead donors in Japan for the last 8 months since the official acceptance of the recent Final Report will be presented. Such obstinate reluctance shown by the Japanese population against organ transplantation from brain-dead donors is certainly an unusual situation. There must be definitely some serious reasons underlying it. No one seems, however, to be able to pinpoint them, although there have been several speculations. The main purpose of my paper today concerns "Why many Japanese do not accept 'brain death' as a definition of death of a person".