RESUMO
This article is the concluding part of the discussion of ethical issues around xenotransplantation which was commenced in the May issue of the journal. Very little discussion has been published in the professional press on this topic. The message of the articles is that it behoves us to think about these issues before commencing such a new course.
Assuntos
Ética Médica , Transplante Heterólogo/métodos , Animais , Comissão de Ética , Humanos , Infecções/etiologia , Transplante Heterólogo/efeitos adversos , Transplante Heterólogo/economiaRESUMO
There now exists, potentially, the scientific and medical knowledge to transplant animal organs into humans, a procedure called xenotransplantation. The rationale behind the idea is that demand for transplanted human organs far exceeds supply. For this reason, alternative methods have been sought. The use of animals is seen as one way to deal with the problem.
Assuntos
Direitos dos Animais , Ética Médica , Medição de Risco , Transplante Heterólogo , Comitês Consultivos , Experimentação Animal , Animais , Humanos , Pessoalidade , Religião e Medicina , Estresse Psicológico , Transplante Heterólogo/métodos , Transplante Heterólogo/psicologiaRESUMO
The question of care of terminally ill patients is, as we all know, fraught with difficulties which become more rather than less intense with new developments in medical systems. Once, doctors were not faced with the question of whether to keep someone alive when it was scarcely in their power to intervene in nature's course. Today, with new powers to keep people alive, the question arises, with ever greater urgency, when and whether those powers should be used.
