ATS2637 Study Guide - Final Guide: Xenotransplantation, Tissue Engineering, Organ Donation

• School: Monash University
• Department: Arts - ATS
• Course: ATS2637
• Professor: Ryan Tonkens

Document Summary

W5 - organ donation: l. zutlevics - markets and the needy: organ sales or aid. Current challenge: increase organ donation from potential donors without transgressing moral boundaries. Methods: altering the criteria for death to increase the pool; opting in to opting out; demoting autonomy; xenotransplantation (from another specie); tissue engineering; creating market in organs. Conclusion: should help the desperately needy (though aid), not creating a market for organs. Selling organs does not provide sustained relief from poverty. This ought to be our focus, as (cid:862)(cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e an obligation to help protect the needy - or at least not use their vulnerability for our o(cid:449)n ad(cid:448)antage(cid:863) exploiting the poor. Those who have alternative sources of income are not likely to choose an option which entails some health risk, some disfigurement, some pain and discomfort. The risks of such sales will certainly fall disproportionately by income class.