Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2005 Mar-Apr;57(2):170-6.

[The law, medical ethics, and transplants]

[Article in Spanish]
Affiliations
  • PMID: 16524056

[The law, medical ethics, and transplants]

[Article in Spanish]
Ruy Pérez-Tamayo. Rev Invest Clin. 2005 Mar-Apr.

Abstract

A discussion of four aspects of the legislation and of the medical ethics of the transplants is presented: the concept of death, the donation of organs, the selection of receivers and the future of the therapeutic transplants. The prominent paragraphs of the General Law of Health of the country about cerebral death, the two legal forms and organs donors' ethics, the criteria and more frequent problems for the selection of receivers, and the character of medical technology of transition of the therapeutic transplants are included.

PubMed Disclaimer

Similar articles

Publication types

MeSH terms