Organ transplantation has, over a period of a few decades, evolved from a daring experimental medical procedure to a widely used health technology. Many lives have been saved, & the quality of life of many other persons has been immeasurably improved. There is now an abundant literature on the medical aspects of transplantation, & an increasing number of books on the legal & ethical aspects -aspects with which WHO has been concerned since the World Health Assembly first took up the matter in 1986. This book is the first global collection of laws & regulations dealing with organ transplantation. Also included are the texts of some of the key international & European declarations & statements on the subject. Most of the materials that appear in the book were originally published in the WHO's International Digest of Health Legislation , but have never been collected in one volume before. This book will be useful to parliamentarians, health policy makers, surgeons & other health professionals involved in transplantation, transplant coordinators, ethicists, & others interested in in-depth information on how different governments & institutions have responded to the considerable ethical, legal & policy challenges posed by this important branch of curative medicine.