Influence of scientific worldviews on attitudes toward organ transplants: national survey data from the United States.
Context--Public acceptance of routine medical procedures is nearly universal, but controversy over dramatic or invasive procedures like transplants is common. Objectives--To assess the distributions and organization of public opinion on organ transplant and to discover the magnitude of the direct an...
| Publicado en: | Progress in Transplantation Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 178 - 189 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2014
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