Haupt, a 24-year-old coloured man who died of brain damage after collapsing on a beach.
The operation on Dr. Blaiberg was the third of its kind. The first heart transplant operation …

On March 16th, 1968, Philip Blaiberg, the then world lone heart transplant survivor left the
Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. He was accompanied to the entrance of …

It is true that In all the common-law countries there Is a remarkable paucity of decided cases
with the sllghtest relevance to the serious social and legal issues which have become a …

On December 3, 1967, in Capetown, South Africa, an historical operation was performed. A
specially trained surgical team excised the diseased heart of a fifty-fire year old man and …

Since the first allo-transplantation of the human heart was performed in December 1967, 1'2
a total of 133 such operations has been recorded throughout the world. 4 The early mortality …

What are the legal problems involved in human organ transplantation? l-la In general, they
are related to live donors, cadavers, recipients, attending physicians, and next of kin. For …

Introduction On December 3, 1967, the first human heart transplant operation was performed
in Cape Town, South Africa. 1 Since then, more than one hundred such operations have …

The legal and ethical questions that have arisen during the last 15 years from the
transplantation of tissues and organs have attracted the attention and stimulated the …

Because of the practical difficulties of obtaining organs from live donors, medical attention
was directed to the possibility of obtaining organs from the bodies of dead donors. The …

A person's organs may be removed fortransplantation as soon as he has been pronounced
dead unless he has left specific instructions to the contrary. Permission need not be sought …