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Published: 12.10.2023.
Language: English
Level: College/University
Literature: 3 units
References: Used
Time period viewed: 2021 - 2025 years
  • Essays 'The worldwide issue of organ transplantation', 1.
  • Essays 'The worldwide issue of organ transplantation', 2.
Extract

“Is the human body sacred? Or is it a commodity ready to be chopped up and exposed to the forces of supply and demand? […]Our own body is a temple. But when we need a spare part, suddenly we’re surprisingly opened to a transaction.” This is how[i] Scott Carney, an investigative journalist, begins his article “The read market”. The issue of organ transplantation has been like a vast virus, which simultaneously has numerous treatments as well as side effects, but overall, only one outcome- to save a human being in need of a new part- an organ transplant.
But what is the correct and ethical way to treat organ donations and donors? Should governments provide financial incentives for healthy individuals, willing to donate an organ to another individual in need? …

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