Ihara S
Department of Psychosomatic Disease, St. Martin's Hospital.
Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi. 1993 Dec;31 Suppl:90-5.
More than one year and six months have passed since the provisional committee on Brain Death has recognized brain death as the death of a human being, and the possibility of organ transplantation from the dead patient after brain death has been confirmed. However, no operation has been performed since then because of many obstacles. One of them is a cultural resistance which Japanese people have against the organ transplantation from a dead person whose heart is still beating. This resistance is based on religious feelings which have been cultivated through the long history of Japan. For opinion makers working professionally in the medical filed, what are the important points which should be examined in order to promote organ transplantation? In this paper or article, I will try to analyze this cultural and religious resistance against it.
自脑死亡临时委员会将脑死亡认定为人的死亡，并确认脑死亡后从死者身上进行器官移植的可能性以来，已经过去了一年半多的时间。然而，从那以后，由于诸多障碍，尚未进行过此类手术。其中之一是日本人对从心脏仍在跳动的死者身上进行器官移植存在文化上的抵触情绪。这种抵触基于在日本悠久历史中形成的宗教情感。对于在医学领域从事专业工作的舆论制造者而言，为推动器官移植，应该审视哪些要点呢？在本文中，我将尝试分析这种文化和宗教上的抵触情绪。
