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A Proposal for Revision of the Organ Transplantation Law Based on A Child Donor’s Prior Declaration
Masahiro Morioka, Tateo Sugimoto
 
Area 1 Ethics
Area 2 Philosophy of Law
Keywords personhood argument
http://www.lifestudies.org/transplantation01.html
This is the translation of the so-called Morioka&Sugimoto proposal on brain death and transplantation. We proposed that the prior declaration of a brain dead child should be respected, and that when the child does not have a donor card the organ removal should be prohibited. A material for understanding an unprecedented bioethics debate now occurring in Japan.