Creator
Melodie Labuschaigne
Professor Melodie Labuschaigne is Professor in Medical law and Ethics in the Department of Jurisprudence in the School of Law, University of South Africa. She is a former Director of the School of Law and Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Law at UNISA.
Tissue engineering: A promising field with ethical challenges
One of the advantages is its ability to regenerate a patient’s own tissue, eliminating biocompatibility, but ethical and legal issues need to be ironed out
Hardly any South Africans are organ donors. What can be done to change this
Organ and tissue donation has not received the priority that it should have from the South African government. A few concrete steps would make a dramatic difference.