[Conceptions guiding the organization of organ procurement and transplantation in France, Canada and the United States]

Abstract

The goal of the seminar which took place in Paris on April 15th and 16th, 2010, was to understand the reasons which lead, on both side of the Atlantic and from a common basis of values, to different choice about essential rules concerning: consent strategies for after death organ donation: non heart beating donation; anonymity; living donation; paired-exchange donation ("crossed donation"); altruistic donation ("good Samaritan"); donation incentives; the place devoted to patient's representatives in health systems. The seminar also aimed at providing the French legislator, while the law on bioethics was being discussed, with international perspective and useful information regarding ethical practices and reflections on these issues.