Organ Transplantation Law in Egypt

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Author(s):  
Raouf Sallam
Keyword(s):  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Transplantation Law

scholarly journals Awareness of Organ Transplantation among Health Care Professionals and Medical Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Zahedul Karim Ahmad ◽  
Md Humayun Kabir ◽  
Abdul Mazid ◽  
Gulshan Ara Akther ◽  
Md Nur Hossain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Transplantation Law ◽  
Keywords Organ Transplantation ◽  
Religious Objection

This cross sectional study was conducted in different medical college hospitals of Dhaka city during the months of Jan-March 2009. The objective of this study was to find out the awareness level on organ transplantation amongst the teachers, doctors and nurses working in these medical college hospitals and 1st to 5th year students. A structured questionnaire was given to the respondents. The total number of respondents was 462 of which 103 (22.3%) were doctors, 268 (58%) were medical students and 91 (19.7%) were nurses. Among the study group 31.4% knew that there was an organ transplantation law in Bangladesh and 16.5% said that there was no such law whereas 52.2% had no idea whatsoever about the law. Of the respondents 33.8% were willing to donate their organs after death, 41.6% did not want to donate and 24.2% were not sure. This study revealed that there was a lack of understanding regarding the religious views on organ transplantation. Only 37.1% of respondents thought that were was no religious objection to organ transplantation whereas 27.1% felt that there was religious objection while 35.7% were not sure. The study shows that there is significant lack of awareness regarding organ transplantation issues among the health care professionals and medical students in Bangladesh. The dictates of religion on this matter were also not clear to most of the respondents. Ibrahim Med. Coll. J. 2009; 3(2): 55-58 Keywords: Organ transplantation, awareness, healthcare professionals, religious sanctions. DOI: 10.3329/imcj.v3i2.4217

scholarly journals Is Post-Mortem Organ Donation a Duty Towards Society and Can It Be Justified by Public Interest? Recent Bills to Amend the German Transplantation Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Martyna Łaszewska-Hellriegel
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Transplantation Law ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
German Constitution ◽  
Deceased Donors ◽  
German Bundestag ◽  
Transplantation System ◽  
German Transplantation Law

The issue of organ donation from deceased donors remains unsatisfactorily resolved in Germany. The number of donors has remained very low in recent years. Consequently, the German Bundestag was holding a debate on two MP bills aimed at amending the organ transplantation law. Two main bills were presented by different groups of MPs. The more controversial of them, supported by the Minister of Health, tried to introduce the opt-out model into Germany’s organ transplantation system. The second one aimed to improve the existing opt-in model. During the final voting, the Bundestag decided against the opt-out model and in favour of the improved opt-in one. In some experts’ eyes, an opt-out model imposes an obligation on the citizens to donate an organ after brain death. Can such a duty to the society be justified by public interest or other principles? The goal of this article is to offer an answer to this question by analysing the provisions of the German constitution.

Biomedical Ethics in Japan: The Second Stage

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
AKIRA AKABAYASHI ◽  
BRIAN T. SLINGSBY
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Death With Dignity ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Transplantation Law ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
Hospice Palliative Care ◽  
Lengthy Process

In Japan, modern biomedical ethics emerged in the early 1980s. One of the main triggers was the nationwide debate on organ transplantation and brain death. A lengthy process of academic, religious, and political discussion concerning organ transplantation, lasting well over a few decades, resulted in the enactment of the Organ Transplantation Law in 1997.1 The defining of death and other bioethical issues, including death with dignity and euthanasia, were also stimulating topics throughout the latter end of the twentieth century. For instance, the death-with-dignity movement, which started around the late 1960s, developed into a hospice/palliative-care movement by the end of the 1980s.

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