论人体移植器官、人工替代器官的法律地位

现代医学的发展,使人们可以通过植入器官或安置人工替代器官来使生命延续或提高生存质量。人体移植器官、人工替代器官是否视为身体的组成部分应视情况而定。成为身体组成部分的人体移植器官、人工替代器官不属于物,可以自由装卸的人工替代器官则是法律上的物。损害人体移植或人工替代器官的行为如果满足违法行为、损害事实、因果关系和主观过错等四个要件,则可以认定为侵权行为,并应予以损害赔偿。

On the Legal Status of Transplanted Human Organs and Artificial Substitute Organs

Modern medical development makes it possible for people to prolong their lives and improve life quality with transplanted organs and artificial substitute organs.Whether transplanted human organs and artificial substitute organs be regarded as components of human bodies is determined by certain conditions.Such components of human bodies as transplanted human organs and artificial substitute organs are not subjects,and artificial substitute organs that can be assembled and disassembled freely are legal subjects.Behaviours harming transplanted human organs and artificial substitute organs that has such four prerequisites as law-violating action,damage facts,causality and subjective fault can be defined as tort,including personal and property encroachment,and compensations must be made.