Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lasning, Michigan 48824-1212, USA.
Bioethics. 2010 Feb;24(2):54-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00690.x. Epub 2009 Dec 5.
This study investigated what information about brain death was available from Google searches for five major religions. A substantial body of supporting research examining online behaviors shows that information seekers use Google as their preferred search engine and usually limit their search to entries on the first page. For each of the five religions in this study, Google listings reveal ethical controversy about organ donation in the context of brain death. These results suggest that family members who go online to find information about organ donation in the context of brain death would find information about ethical controversy in the first page of Google listings. Organ procurement agencies claim that all major world religions approve of organ donation and do not address the ethical controversy about organ donation in the context of brain death that is readily available online.
本研究调查了在谷歌搜索中可以找到关于五种主要宗教的脑死亡信息。大量研究表明，信息搜索者使用谷歌作为他们首选的搜索引擎，并且通常将搜索范围限制在第一页的条目上。在这项研究中的五种宗教中，谷歌列表揭示了脑死亡背景下器官捐赠的伦理争议。这些结果表明，在网上寻找脑死亡背景下器官捐赠信息的家属会在谷歌列表的第一页找到关于伦理争议的信息。器官采购机构声称，所有主要的世界宗教都批准器官捐赠，并不涉及在网上很容易获得的脑死亡背景下器官捐赠的伦理争议。
