Publications

Publication details [#51742]

Bresnahan, Mary, Xiaowen Guan, Xiao Wang and Yi Mou. 2008. The culture of the body: attitudes toward organ donation in China and the US. Chinese Journal of Communication 1 (2) : 181–195.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | health | intention | medical conversation | social norm

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on the Theory of Reasoned Action and the Social Norms Approach, this study explores how attitudes and norms affect American and Chinese respondents' intent to become organ donors.