[Ethical contradictions in lung transplantation]

Medical and scientific rationality often overlooked the importance of the symbolic dimension of personal and collective relationship to our body which organ transplantation cannot ignore. Hence the difficulty of the campaigns, with a widening gulf between resuscitation maneuvers intended for the sole organ perfusion during the sampling in patients with heart stopped and fostering an attitude of a friendly support person. A well-doing medical discourse for the recipient cannot ignore a dialogue on the meaning of a "donation" of which counter-donation carries the same symbolic values.