The legal and ethical framework governing Body Donation in Europe – 1st update on current practice
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Previously, we have reported on the legal and ethical aspects and current practice of body donation in several European countries, reflecting cultural and religious variations as well as different legal and constitutional frameworks. We have also established good practice in body donation. Here we shall further extend the legal and ethical frameworks in place and also focus on novelties in the law and different directives. Of particular interest are points that address the commercialization of human bodies and body parts and weaknesses in the legal directives. Therefore, it is important to define what is ethical and what needs to be considered unethical in body donation and the subsequent utilisation of human bodies for teaching and research.
Source: OAR@UM (University of Malta)
Institutions: University of Lausanne, Radboud University Nijmegen, Universität Innsbruck, University of the Basque Country, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Imperial College London, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University Medical Center Groningen, Newcastle University, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇, University of Malta
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2105216897