Medicine Anthropology Theory (Nov 2020)

Solidarity beyond the grave: Yielding organs in a Nordic welfare state

  • Susanne Ådahl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.312
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 22 – 49

Abstract

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According to a survey carried out in 2009, Finnish citizens are exceptionally willing to donate their organs after death, an attitude that paved the way for a 2010 amendment to the Tissue Law that introduced an ‘opt-out’ consent policy. Reactions to the l

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