Abstract
Individual consent is commonly adopted in organ donation legislation worldwide. However, this kind of legislation may cause practice to deviate from law and disparage its authority. Consequently, we have designed an organ donation informed consent system with family informed consent as its basis, whose rationality is not confined to Confucian society. In order to prove its rationality, we need to determine the foundation of the right supporting family-directed organ donation. In addition, such a right needs to be analyzed by reconstructionist Confucian bioethics.
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I would like to thank Professor Ruiping Fan and an anonymous referee for their comments and suggestions to the earlier versions of this paper. Their comments and suggestion help to improve the paper a lot.
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Cai, Y. (2015). On Family Informed Consent in the Legislation of Organ Donation in China. In: Fan, R. (eds) Family-Oriented Informed Consent. Philosophy and Medicine(), vol 121. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12120-8_12
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