Centre for Bioethics and Biosafety, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
Soc Sci Med. 2013 Dec;98:340-4. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.040. Epub 2013 Apr 3.
This paper explores two lines of development in the donor consent procedures in post-Soviet Latvia. The paper is based on secondary analysis of interview, focus group discussion data, and media and legal text material collected throughout three previously conducted research projects on organ transplantation, population genome project and xenotransplantation focusing on the historical development of the issues of donor consent across these three fields of medical technologies. The paper argues that the quality of consent depends not as much on political and legal change per se as on the strengthening of the position of both medical specialists and donors, facilitating bonds between the two.
本文探讨了在后苏联拉脱维亚的供体同意程序中两条发展路线。本文基于对访谈、焦点小组讨论数据以及在三个先前进行的器官移植、人口基因组计划和异种移植研究项目中收集的媒体和法律文本材料的二次分析，这些项目集中研究了供体同意在这三个医疗技术领域的历史发展。本文认为，同意的质量不仅取决于政治和法律变革本身，还取决于加强医疗专家和供体的地位，促进两者之间的联系。
