Organ Donation as Gift Exchange
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- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Vol. 22 (4) , 239-242
Abstract
Organ donation, considered by sociologists as a type of gift exchange, involves moral, social, psychological, religious and legal issues. This gift exchange paradigm can be used as a framework to understand donor and recipient issues, cadaveric organ donation and the importance of the role of nurses during organ procurement.Keywords
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