The medical ethical guidelines of the SAMS are frequently being reviewed, revised and adapted, when new developments occur. Once an area is regulated, the SAMS withdraws the correspondening guideline. On this page you can find former and retracted versions of the guidelines.
Former versions of current guidelines
All currently valid medical ethical guidelines can be found in the menu publications. There, the guidelines can be downloaded or ordered in printed form free of charge. The documents listed here are only available electronically.
Organ transplantation
Living donation of solid organs (2008) in German or French only
Replaced by: Federal Act on the Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells of 8.10.2004
and by: Living donation of solid organs (2023)
Collaboration between the medical profession and industry
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Scientific integrity
Management of dying and death
Medical practice in respect of detained persons
Elderly people in need of care
Determination of Death
Coercive Measures
Advance directives
Palliative Care
People with disabilities
Revoked guidelines
Biobanks
Biobanks: Obtainment, preservation and utilisation of human biological material (2006)
Withdrawal by the Senate of the SAMS on 28.11.2013
Partly replaced by: Federal Act on Research involving Human Beings of 30 September 2011
Gene therapy
Xenotransplantation
Principles on xenotransplantation (2000)
Replaced by: Verordnung über die Transplantation von tierischen Organen, Geweben und Zellen vom 16.3.2007 in German or French only