Price D P
School of Law, De Montfort University, Leicester.
J Med Ethics. 1997 Jun;23(3):170-5. doi: 10.1136/jme.23.3.170.
Assessments of the acceptability of new transplantation practices require a pinpointing of not only the meaning of death, but also the timing of death. They typically perceive elective ventilation as occurring just prior to death and non-heart-beating donor protocols as operative just after death. However, such practices in fact highlight the general vagueness and ambiguity surrounding these issues in both law and ethics. Supply-side dilemmas in transplantation lend real urgency to this "life or death" debate.
对新移植实践可接受性的评估不仅需要明确死亡的定义，还需要确定死亡的时间。他们通常认为选择性通气发生在死亡前，而非心跳供体方案在死亡后实施。然而，这些实践实际上凸显了法律和伦理中围绕这些问题的普遍模糊性和不确定性。移植中的供应方困境使这场“生死”辩论具有了真正的紧迫性。
