[Does ethics of donation apply equally to all elements of the human body?]

The therapeutic use of elements and products of the human body has always raised serious questions about the balance to be respected between a duty to protect donors and a compelling therapeutic purpose for a patient. Our body is part of a relationship of otherness, since it embodies the person, a relationship that is sometimes therapeutic, for oneself or for others. As an object of gift, the body requires protection. However, if ethics of donation is based on common axiological and protective elements, the field of donation of human body parts is vast and evolving. Each type of donation has its own specificity and its own references, which requires pragmatism, collective reflection, in which everybody should be able to participate in an informed manner.