https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/26477 2026-06-15T00:47:36Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/30596 Title: Patients' rights, Reproductive technology, Transplantation : proceedings of a symposium Editors: Cauchi, M.N. Abstract: Proceedings of the symposium organised by the Bioethics Consultative Committee held in November 1999. Description: Includes foreword by Dr. L. Deguara, Minister for Health 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/30595 Title: Ethical issues of kidney transplantation Abstract: Up to 1982, in Malta there was very little choice available for persons with advanced renal disease. Some patients went overseas seeking a transplant abroad. In 1982 the first haemodialysis was performed, but only on patients who were scheduled to receive a living donor transplant from a family member. From 1984 onwards were included young non-diabetic end-stage renal failure patients who were candidates for a renal transplant not necessarily from a living-related person. 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/30594 Title: Introduction : patient rights Abstract: A Charter for patient's rights appears to be a minimum benchmark for us to have in front of us. I believe also that we require a change in attitude, an attempt to deal with patients as equals and not merely as dependent inferiors. It is amazing how less frequent are complaints relating to patients' rights in the private sector where the question of status and equality is perhaps less obvious. 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/30593 Title: Concluding remarks Abstract: This three day conference organised by the Bioethics Committee has been the third of its kind. In the past years similar conferences were held on 'Informed Consent' and last year on 'Bioethics and the Disabled'. The conference this year was more ambitious because it tackled three topics. Each topic could in its own right have been the sole subject for a conference of this nature. The reason all three topics were held in one conference was because of the impending demand each is imposing on us in this period. 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z