An ethical analysis of the terminology of living donors proposed by ELPAT

Apart from the practical problems that we are faced with in the case of organ donation, there lay a series of terminological issues in need of a thorough clarification. Recently, the ELPAT group on living donors (Ethical, Legal and Psychological Aspects of Organ Transplantation) has proposed a new clarification for living organ donors. This classification (F. M. Dor et al, 2011) attempts to avoid ambiguities and the other problems of current taxonomies. Our paper attempts to provide an ethical analysis of this terminology.transplantation ethics, terminology, living donors, altruism

Elements for a profile of ethical expert adapted to the Romanian context

The paper attempts at sketching a portrait of an ethical expert adapted to the Romanian context. Departing from an analysis of various roles of the ethical expert from the Western context, the paper will evaluate the diverse competence that are necessary for performing these roles. Admitting the interdisciplinary profile of ethical expertise, the paper will discuss the possibility for individuals with a philosophical formation to gain these competences, throughout the phases of the philosophical trainingethical expertise, philosophy, expert, Romania