Organs

Organ donation has been an ethical debate for a long time. Organ donation is a process of giving away your organs to another person in need by an organ transplant. An organ transplant is an operation that puts a healthy organ from your body into another person’s body. One donor can save as many as 50 people. The organs that can be donated include the internal organs like the kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines and other organs like the skin, bone, bone marrow, cornea and many tissues.…

An organ transplant is a surgical process in which a functioning organ is given to a patient whose organ has stopped working or is close to failing(United Network for Organ Sharing). Organs can be taken from a living person or someone who has passed away(Medlineplus). A person’s organ can stop working due to diseases, injury or birth defects. Even though transplant is one of the advances of medicine the need is greater than the donation. There is usually a long wait time before a…

these unimaginable things is organ transfers. We are capable of taking an organ such as a kidney or liver and transplanting it into another human being so that they may live longer with a healthy functioning organ. With this amazing advance, however there have been consequences. The most serious of these consequences is the lack in supply of transferable organs. The result of this consequence has caused many individuals to partake in what is called organ tourism. Organ tourism is when someone…

Should The Sale of Human Organ Be Legal? “A few years ago, Brian Doherty estimated that every day, 17 Americans die waiting for organs. No doubt the figure is higher now” (Jason). Throughout history there has been many incidents regarding the issue of the sale of human organs. Sally Satel reports that at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania there is a ten year old patient that has cystic fibrosis. Her name is Sarah Murnaghan and she is need of a new set of lungs. With only weeks to live,…

Organ Sales; A Solution That Will Save Lives Thousands of people have heard the shocking news that they need an organ transplant. It is not that they have to undergo surgery that shocks them, but the shocking statistics of the waiting period to get the organ they need. Many people die every day because of it, but only 1% of Americans are donors. There are thousands of people who have healthy organs and are willing to sell them for money that they could use to feed and house their children…

Introduction The need of organ donors only rise higher and higher. In “It Is Morally Acceptable to Buy and Sell Organs for Human Translation”, Mark Cherry offers a solution to this. He provides claims that defend the ethics of human organ trade. Analyzing Cherry’s arguments, I will explain how our organs are not commodities, they cannot be part of a regulated market, and we do not have the authority to put a price on them. Not only would it undervalue human life, but it has many negative…

bigger than what was expected (“A drop”). This little idiomatic phrase is essential to this problem of having some money before organ transplants; that little drop (money before) needs to multiply extravagantly to fill the bucket (cost after bills). To really go into the topic, a main matter for attention related to organ trade and sales is the cost to receive an organ and plus the hospital bill right after. A proposal to make about this is to find a way to lower that high price of the ending…

The milestone of the first ever successful organ transplantation in the world was established by surgeon Dr. Joseph Murray in 1954. Such medical achievement led the world into a new era where organs can be used for people other than the host; not only did the accomplishment open up the possibilities for saving more lives, it also unlocked the secrets of human bodies’ immune system. Although the first organ transplantation successfully performed in the U.S. might have received different reactions…

Organ donation is very important field of medicine. The organs that are donated help saves peoples lives.Many people in the U.S. need a new organ. If people didn’t donate the people who need them would die. Organ donation has come a long way, from a kidney transplant between to twins to heart and lung transplants. Many thing about transplants have been discovered. The first ever successful organ transplant was a kidney transplant between two identical twins in 1954 that is what started it all.…

Organ transplants are a serious matter all around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people a day are constantly waiting for organ transplants. Many of those people will end up dying on that waiting list due to the lack of supply. This is because of the massive global organ shortage that is available for transplants. The huge gap between supply and demand has caused many people to look elsewhere for their organ transplants, even if it is through the black market. This type of problem happened…