What Accounts for the Reluctance to Actively Pursue Organ Transplantation

question 42

Multiple Choice

What accounts for the reluctance to actively pursue organ transplantation in Japan?

• A) Japanese physicians' practice "open door" medicine.
• B) Japanese are concerned about keeping the body intact.
• C) The criteria for brain death are applied too strictly.
• D) Death is viewed as a medically determined phenomenon.

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