Ethical debate over organ donation in the context of brain death.

Ethical debate over organ donation in the context of brain death.

Bresnahan, Mary Jiang
Mahler, Kevin

2010/02/00

English

20100200

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.

20.2.1

20.2.1;1.2;19.5; 1.3.12

brain death--[pri];organ donation--[pri];religious ethics--[pri]

Buddhist ethics;Hindu ethics;information dissemination;Internet;Islamic ethics;Jewish ethics;Roman Catholic ethics

Google

Bioethics 2010 February; 24(2): 54-60

37

ja

journal

49 fn.

1467-8519