A matter of life or death: China moves towards changing its transplantation practices  

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Parry, Jane

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7627 (Nov. 2007), page 961.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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China is changing—and changing fast. And, partly to gain acceptance on the global health stage, it has begun to tackle one of its more controversial healthcare practices: using organs harvested from executed prisoners for transplantation. For Zhonghua Klaus Chen, vice chairman of the Chinese Organ Transplantation Society, a recent statement by the Chinese Medical Association against the use of executed prisoners' organs is a welcome boost to efforts to bring Chinese transplantation practices into line with international standards. Having trained in Germany and the United Kingdom, including a stint with Cambridge University under the transplantation surgeon Roy Calne, Professor Chen became convinced that prisoners were not in a position to give free consent for organ donation after their deaths. "As part of the organ procurement team in Cambridge I was very proud of what I was doing," he said, "yet, in China, surgeons using prisoners' organs can't discuss their work . . .

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