The Baby Fae case in 1984 raised numerous issues pertaining to the ethical and moral elements. Arguably, the transfer of a baboon’s heart into a human infant not only raised numerous issues in medicine and the value of the position of human beings in the modern age, but it also dramatizes how far science can go in setting standards and limits of organ transplantation. If the transplant succeeded, then Baby Fae could be the longest survivor of an animal-human transplant. However, this experimental operation stirs inherent, ethical, social, and moral questions regarding how fast and where healthcare professionals including doctors should be going in the field of transplantation.1 The thought of animal-to-human transplants are not new to us.
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In this regard, the autonomy principle is a justification for various medical rules pertaining to constraints of up to date consent to participation or treatment in research. Kant insists that the concept of the happiness and the well being of human beings are completely independent and it therefore makes it difficult to understand his concepts. It is a fine analysis of the moral obligation and the moral principle he notes “nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a good will”. 5 This means that people try to avoid and seek various sorts of things, the good things, which they seek, and the bad things they tend to …show more content…
Baby Fae was the youngest human being on whom an animal-to-human transplant has been tried. The majority of health specialists particularly in the medical community suppose that the hardships of transplanting organs with cross-species has reached top levels where humans should be experimented. Doctors who performed Baby Fae’s surgery did not have a false impression about possible risks in that operation where an animal’s organ was used in human being. But in fact, keeping all these ethical and moral issues in mind, this case could have been so heroic that if this experiment succeeded like they hoped then those doctors would have saved future human beings to
In this regard, the autonomy principle is a justification for various medical rules pertaining to constraints of up to date consent to participation or treatment in research. Kant insists that the concept of the happiness and the well being of human beings are completely independent and it therefore makes it difficult to understand his concepts. It is a fine analysis of the moral obligation and the moral principle he notes “nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a good will”. 5 This means that people try to avoid and seek various sorts of things, the good things, which they seek, and the bad things they tend to …show more content…
Baby Fae was the youngest human being on whom an animal-to-human transplant has been tried. The majority of health specialists particularly in the medical community suppose that the hardships of transplanting organs with cross-species has reached top levels where humans should be experimented. Doctors who performed Baby Fae’s surgery did not have a false impression about possible risks in that operation where an animal’s organ was used in human being. But in fact, keeping all these ethical and moral issues in mind, this case could have been so heroic that if this experiment succeeded like they hoped then those doctors would have saved future human beings to