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Published on: April 27, 2015
[The ethics of organ donation for transplantation]
1Serviço de Propedêutica Cirúrgica-Cirurgia I HSM/FML, Lisboa.
Abstract:
The new law 12/93, which regulates organ donation for transplantation in Portugal, is reviewed. The author emphasizes the importance of some legal improvements to allow a better fulfillment of the first principles of ethics that will rule the conflicts of interest between living and dead donors and recipients. Criticism is made of the interference that the Ministry of Health will have in the decision of doctors' and Medical Centres' competence. The importance given to economic reasons which stimulate political promotion and minimise ethical and professional reasons would become future factors of obstruction and backwardness.
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