장기이식과 관련된 특수한 문제점들에 관한 윤리적 검토

There is less agreement in the special problems of organ transplantation. This paper tries to identify problems of the standard guidelines and to formulate open questions in organ transplantation.

New therapies for Parkinson's Disease involve transplantation of nerve tissue grafted from aborted fetuses. This leads to the question, in how far a therapy based on fetal tissue harvesting is contaminated with ethical problems concerning abortion. It seems to be necessary, to discuss ethical implications not only for the donor, but also for the reciever of the brain tissue.

I turn to the problems of living donors. In the case of paired organs, like kidneys, the law is permissive, where the loss and risk of further injury to the donor are moderate in relation to the anticipated benefit to the recipient.

There is one further question that ought to be raised in connection with the selection of donors: should a person be encouraged or permitted to sell his organs for purposes of transplant? To save oneself by putting another in mortal danger through trading on his poverty strikes one as an immoral bargain.