Organ Donation

Abstract

This research paper entails a detailed research on organ donation. This paper explains us the concept of organ donation, the demand and the supply of organs in the United States, the origin of black market and its operations, the ethical concerns associated with organ donation, cases of organ donation, and pros and con. The research paper has also highlighted the issues related to death row inmates in organ donation.

Table of Content

Abstract2

Introduction4

Discussion5

Black Market of Human Organs5

Bioethical Issues6

Deontological issues6

Teleological Issues6

Prisoners7

Transplantation and Donation Cases9

Pros and Cons10

Cons10

Pros11

Conclusion11

References12

Organ Donation

Introduction

Donation of organs or biological tissues of a human body is known as organ donation. Organ donation can be undertaken from the person either living or dead to the person who is in need of transplantation of an organ. Transplantation involves removal or tissues or transplantable organs by surgical procedure, which is explicitly based on the social and medical history of the person. The person chosen for organ donation has to be healthy physically. This process is called allotrasplantations, which is different from transplantation of organs from animals to human, known as xenotransplantation.

In the United States, 100,000 people are on waiting lists for the organ donation. Across the globe shortage of organ donation are encountered, whereas there is a significant increase of demand increasing every year. In the United States only is encountering the crisis of organ donation, whereas only 30,000 transplantations can be performed every year. On an average more than 6,000 people die every year due to the shortage of organ donation, this makes 19 people dying every day. During the 1988 to 2006, where was two fold increase notified in transplantations; however, the number of patients on waiting list for organ donation increased by six folds.

The 1987 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act was implemented by several states and numerous medical examiners were allowed to research if the cadaver tissues and organs can be donated. There were several states that implement the law in 1980s and allowed the retrieval and donation of certain human organs and tissues, whereas, certain stats allowed donation of all parts, while other allowed only certain parts to be donated with the consent of the family members. The UAGA was revised in 2006; the idea of consent of the family was abandoned. However, today in the United States donation of the organ is only done with the family consent or the consent of the donor himself.

Discussion

Black Market of Human Organs

In the United States the market of organ donation is severely regulated and shadowy operations of or organ dealings are rarely heard. In the United States and numerous other nations it is illegal to donate or receive organs for compensation. But black markets of organ dealings do exist in the society. People living in third world countries or belonging to impoverished regions are lured to sell their organs in the black market. In such cases donors are hired to move to another nation, where organs are retrieved from them in a makeshift operating room (Fox, ...