Organ donation agency: A discourse analysis of correspondence between donor and organ recipient families
| Autor: | Magi Sque, Dariusz Galasiński |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Tissue and Organ Procurement
Health (social science) Health Policy Discourse analysis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Correspondence as Topic Tissue Donors Transplantation 03 medical and health sciences Organ procurement 0302 clinical medicine Donation Agency (sociology) Accountability Humans Family 060301 applied ethics 030212 general & internal medicine Organ donation Psychology Social psychology Psychosocial |
| Zdroj: | Sociology of Health & Illness. 38:1350-1363 |
| ISSN: | 0141-9889 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12478 |
| Popis: | Studies about the psychosocial issues concerning organ donation and transplantation tend to focus on the experiences of donor or recipient families. Little is known about the part played by correspondence exchanged between these two groups; in particular how they perceive the agency of organ donation. This is the first analysis to address the representation of the act of donation from the viewpoint of both donor and recipient families through interrogation of archived correspondence data, using linguistic techniques. The data was drawn from a collection of letters, from four USA organ procurement organisations, exchanged between donor and transplant recipient families. Donor families consistently linguistically ascribed agency and accountability for donation to the person who died, the donor. For the recipient families, on the other hand, the 'giver' was mainly implied, ambiguous or ascribed to the donor family. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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