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The Role of Body Concepts for Donation Willingness. Insights from a Survey with German Medical and Economics Students

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Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage

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The current debate on organ donation focuses mainly on the question of how to motivate more people to donate or to overcome the laziness of not filling out an organ donor card. The German law, for example, follows the classical information deficit paradigm by assuming that more information about the possibility for organ donation (e.g., now issued regularly by the social health care insurance agencies) will lead to more organ donors as it conceptualizes public skepticism towards a particular technology to be based mainly on ignorance.

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  1. 1.

    Ahlert and Schwettmann (2012); Heuer et al. (2009).

  2. 2.

    Lock (1993); Lundin (2002).

  3. 3.

    Wynne (2006); Bauer et al. (2007).

  4. 4.

    Lock (2002); Hauser-Schäublin et al. (2001).

  5. 5.

    Waldby and Mitchell (2006).

  6. 6.

    Inthorn et al. (2014).

  7. 7.

    Hoffmann and Mansel (2010).

  8. 8.

    Gross et al. (2001).

  9. 9.

    Strenge et al. (2000); Boulware et al. (2002); Schaeffner et al. (2004); Ahlert (2007).

  10. 10.

    Norris et al. (2012).

  11. 11.

    See campaign by the Bundeszentrale für Gesundheitliche Aufklärung, in Mobil Jun 2013, www.organspende-info.de.

  12. 12.

    e.g. Rey et al. (2011); BZgA (2003, 2012); Ahlert and Schwettmann (2012).

  13. 13.

    Decker et al. (2008).

  14. 14.

    DSO (2012).

  15. 15.

    See also: Ahlert (2007); Decker et al. (2008).

  16. 16.

    Kranenburg et al. (2008).

  17. 17.

    Mazaris et al. (2011).

  18. 18.

    Mazaris et al. (2011).

  19. 19.

    Wöhlke (2013).

  20. 20.

    Kalitzkus (2003); Kaminer et al. (1978).

  21. 21.

    Sanner (2001).

  22. 22.

    Sanner (1994); Siminoff et al. (2004).

  23. 23.

    Sanner (2001); Lock (1993).

  24. 24.

    See. Eurotransplant (2013); DSO (2012).

  25. 25.

    Decker et al. 2008

  26. 26.

    Sanner (1994).

  27. 27.

    Sanner (1994, p. 1145).

  28. 28.

    Cf. Basu et al. (1989); Künsebeck et al. (2000); Lawlor and Kerridge (2011).

  29. 29.

    Künsnbeck et al. (2000, p. 48); similar: Strenge et al. (2000).

  30. 30.

    Sharp (1995, 2001).

  31. 31.

    Schlitt et al. (1999a, b).

  32. 32.

    Lawlor and Kerridge (2011).

  33. 33.

    Schipperges (1989).

  34. 34.

    Sanner (1994, p. 1145).

  35. 35.

    Schicktanz and Wöhlke 2015

  36. 36.

    Stoecker (2010); Müller (2010).

  37. 37.

    Muthny and Schweidtmann (2000).

  38. 38.

    Müller (2010); Hübner and Six (2005); Ohwaki et al. (2006).

  39. 39.

    Lock and Crowley-Makota (2008); Lock (2000); Ohnuki-Tierney (1994).

  40. 40.

    GfK (2010).

  41. 41.

    Faßbender (2003).

  42. 42.

    Faßbender (2003).

  43. 43.

    Siminoff et al. (2004).

  44. 44.

    Siminoff et al. (2004).

  45. 45.

    Schicktanz (2007).

  46. 46.

    E.g. Schweda and Schicktanz (2009).

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Wöhlke, S., Inthorn, J., Schicktanz, S. (2016). The Role of Body Concepts for Donation Willingness. Insights from a Survey with German Medical and Economics Students. In: Jox, R., Assadi, G., Marckmann, G. (eds) Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16441-0_4

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