Organ donorship: attitudes and altruism.
Thanks to increased publicity, many people are aware of, and sympathetic to, the need for kidney donors. Dr Barbara Lewis of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology describes her own survey in which she investigated how attitudes to organ donorship have changed in recent years and whether blood donors feel differently to the general public.
D000533:Altruism; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001782:Blood Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States