Resumen

PEREZ-TAMAYO, Ruy. The law, the medical ethic, and the transplants. Rev. invest. clín. [online]. 2005, vol.57, n.2, pp.170-176. ISSN 2564-8896.

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.

Palabras llave : Transplants; Medical ethics; Mexican law.