Law and Transplantology: The Limits of Regulation
- Autores: Romanovsky G.B.1, Romanovskaya O.V.2
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Afiliações:
- Penza State University
- Middle Volga Institute (Branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice
- Edição: Volume 36, Nº 2 (2025)
- Páginas: 90-106
- Seção: Social practices
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0236-2007/article/view/290829
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0236200725020059
- ID: 290829
Resumo
The analysis of legal regulation of Russian transplantology indicates certain contradictions. Until now, the Law of the Russian Federation of December 22, 1992 No. 4180-1 “On Transplantation of Human Organs and (or) Tissues” is in force. At the same time, the basic provisions of human organ (tissue) donation are defined by Article 47 of the Federal Law of November 21, 2011 No. 323-FZ “On the Fundamentals of Health Protection of Citizens in the Russian Federation”, which predetermined a whole layer of by-laws that significantly changed the procedure for the removal of human organs. The stability of Russian legislation in this area determines the general conclusion about the exhaustion of legal opportunities for the development of this industry. The article examines foreign experience in regulating transplantology, using the legislation of France, Holland, Canada as a basis. It is shown that social institutions have a noticeable influence on the posthumous: family, public opinion, institutional readiness of the healthcare system. The article presents an analysis of the discussions around economic incentives for posthumous donation and its vision through the concept of an altruistic gift. The role of the family in making a decision on posthumous donation is outlined. In the vast majority of countries, even in the presence of a lifetime expression of will on posthumous donation, the opinion of close relatives is of decisive importance. At the same time, there are legal difficulties in formalizing a common family decision. In Russian legislation, when legalizing such a model, additional difficulties will arise due to the lack of an official concept of family (it is absent from the Family Code of the Russian Federation), the consolidation of its legal capacity, and the difficulties in formalizing the unified will of a collective subject. Other gaps in Russian law are identified that should be taken into account when searching for ways to develop domestic transplantology.
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Georgy Romanovsky
Penza State University
Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: vlad93@sura.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0546-2557
DSc in Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Criminal Law of the Institute of Law
Rússia, 40, Krasnaya St., Penza, 440026Olga Romanovskaya
Middle Volga Institute (Branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice
Email: pgu-gpd@yandex.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4563-1725
DSc in Law, Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure
Rússia, 6, Fedoseenko St., Saransk, 430003Bibliografia
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