Kimura R
Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1991 Jun;1(2):123-31. doi: 10.1353/ken.0.0101.
Japan is unusual among industrialized countries in its reluctance to use brain criteria to determine death and harvest transplant organs. This results from public distrust of the medical profession due to an earlier incident, and from concern that technological interventions will threaten religious and cultural traditions surrounding death and dying. Public acceptance is growing, however, as medical professional groups and universities develop brain criteria, and as pressure from patients who could benefit from a transplant, as well as from foreign countries, increases.
在工业化国家中，日本与众不同，它不愿使用脑死亡标准来判定死亡并获取移植器官。这是由于早期的一起事件导致公众对医疗行业不信任，以及担心技术干预会威胁围绕死亡和临终的宗教及文化传统。然而，随着医学专业团体和大学制定脑死亡标准，以及来自能够从移植中受益的患者和外国的压力增加，公众的接受度正在提高。
