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The first organ donation law in Turkey came out in 1979 (Act.Nr.2238), and was revised in 1982 (Act.Nr.17727). The new legislation on Organ Transplantation Centres came out as Act Nr.21674, on August 20th 1993. The appendix of this act defined the criteria of brainstem death as brain-death, and legally accepted death. The last paragraph of this section describes the procedure for organ donation in brain death-patients as follows; (if the relatives of a brain-death patient, disapprove of organ donation, life-sustaining treatments will be withdrawn.). In this study, we try to investigate the social attitudes towards the concept of brainstem death and the new regulation on consent procedures for post mortem organ donations.
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Salaçin, S., Gülmen, M.K., Alper, B., Çekin, N., Kellece, L. (1995). Social Attitudes Towards the Latest Legislation on Brain Death. In: Mangin, P., Ludes, B. (eds) Acta Medicinæ Legalis Vol. XLIV 1994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79523-7_43
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