Organ Transplants

Commercialization of Organ Transplants

Commercialization of Organ Transplants

Introduction

Currently the ethical dilemmas about organ transplants are directed to the circumstances and not in the intervention. The major focus is on the discussion concerning the donor instead of the recipient. In 2004, the World Health Assembly in resolution WHA57.18, began a process to advisory activities, scientific and ethical. In addition, epidemiological studies addressed related to allogeneic transplants and donations within the field of ethics. Subsequently, it created a global knowledge base and Global Observatory Donations and Transplants with the collaboration of the National Transplant Organization. The purpose was to monitor activities related to transplants worldwide.

Currently, patients who require organ transplants have increased in the last 20 years. Similarly, countries have generated public policies and regulations for these procedures. However, there is insufficient number of donors on the growing demand of patients. Although, there have been various reforms have been proposed to increase organ and tissue uptake, but these have failed to increase the availability of donor. With the emergence of the ethical laws the organ trade and trafficking in human being has also increased to a great extent on the world stage (Schweda, & Schicktanz, 2009).

Discussion

Currently, the critics have prevailed altruistic act of donation from poor and needy personnel, which has been the most accepted procedure ethically. Living donors can only be justified in extreme cases because, although they may be motivated by an altruistic gesture, it is sometimes not possible to determine the presence or absence of coercion. In relation to trade in organs and tissues, some authors argue that this is not compatible with the right, because there could be underlying circumstances that influence the autonomous decision-making subject to sell their organs.

Scientific progress and approach to market have changed the way we see the human body, allowing ample degrees of freedom on it. So is it possible that in certain circumstances it can actually change the established ethics? If so, the principles of solidarity, justice and autonomy are small and come into conflict. However, some bioethicists believe it would be tolerable or incentive compensation pursuing a good, as is the achievement of a human organ to save a life.

Other authors state that it is not possible to ignore the real world with social, economic, cultural and psychological unrest. Therefore, the hypothesis that asserts the possibility of maintaining a control logic favoring a market approach is simply ...