인체조직에 대한 관리 및 법제도 현황

Management and Legal System on Human Tissue

Human tissue differs from other things in that it derives from human being. Its donation is made without compensation. Hence, the management of human tissue requires strong morality and necessitates a fair and prompt system of distribution based on the principle of fair distribution. Public management of human tissue is important. The state should prepare the public management system of human tissue and intervene in the channeling and distribution of human tissues more actively. To wit, the state should uphold the donors spirit of donation without compensation and provide and manage the public management system of human tissue that can encourage the spread of the culture of human tissue donation and enable the beneficiary to receive fairly at low cost. The establishment and management of public tissue bank that publicly implements pursuant to the non-profit principle the collection and processing of tissues obtained by tissue donation support organizations becomes important with regard to the reinforcement of public management of human tissue. In the long run, the current management that separates the donations into organs, marrows, human tissues, cord blood, and other human resources needs to be replaced by the separate management of human resources for transplant and human resources for research and development. In the case of human resources for transplant, commissioning one comprehensive organization to establish the integrated data base system and conduct integrated public management is desirable.