[An interdisciplinary approach of the organ donation decision: the Lausanne's experience]

Rev Med Suisse. 2013 Nov 27;9(408):2249-53.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Since 2007, the Interdisciplinary Ethics Platform (Ethos) of the University of Lausanne is leading an interdisciplinary reflection on the organ donation decision. On this basis, the project "Organ transplantation between the rhetoric of the gift and a biomedical view of the body" studies the logics at stake in the organ donation decision-making process. Results highlight many tensions within practices and public discourses in the field of organ donation and transplantation and suggest lines of inquiry for future adjustments.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Decision Making*
  • Humans
  • Interdisciplinary Communication
  • Organ Transplantation / methods*
  • Switzerland
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement / organization & administration*