Published: 2018-01-10

Selected Aspects of Organ Transplantation in the USA

Ewa M. Guzik-Makaruk , Magda Olesiuk-Okomska
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2017.17.2.01

Abstract

Summary

This paper addresses selected aspects of organ transplantation in the United States. It presents a selection of statistical data, the legal regulations pertaining to living and deceased donation, the transplantation system based on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, organ procurement organisations, the legal regulations for the prohibition of organ trafficking, and the only case of organ trafficking so far which has led to a conviction (2012).

Keywords:

transplantation, living donation, deceased donation, organ trafficking.

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Guzik-Makaruk, E. M., & Olesiuk-Okomska, M. (2018). Selected Aspects of Organ Transplantation in the USA. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 17(2), 5–35. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2017.17.2.01

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