title: [The law, medical ethics, and transplants].
abstract: A discussion of four aspects of the legislation and of the medical ethics of the transplants is presented: the concept of death, the donation of organs, the selection of receivers and the future of the therapeutic transplants. The prominent paragraphs of the General Law of Health of the country about cerebral death, the two legal forms and organs donors' ethics, the criteria and more frequent problems for the selection of receivers, and the character of medical technology of transition of the therapeutic transplants are included.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Experimental, Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM, México, DF.
authors.forename: Ruy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pérez-Tamayo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis; D002102:Cadaver; D002648:Child; D032821:Commodification; D003643:Death; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D033001:Directed Tissue Donation; D005544:Forecasting; D006323:Heart Arrest; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008020:Life Support Care; D008800:Mexico; D010067:Ownership; D018579:Patient Selection; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State / Q000175:diagnosis; D014019:Tissue Donors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014180:Transplantation / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*