Published: 2018-09-141

Experimental Transplantology: Xenotransplantation - Hope or Threat?

Agnieszka Raniszewska-Wyrwa
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.892

Abstract

The progress in transplantation technology has opened new possibilities of saving the lives of those who in the past were doomed to inevitable death. However, along with the development, and consequently, popularization of such types of procedures, the number of patients awaiting a transplant kept growing, but the number of available organs was not enough. Such a situation has led to searching for new sources of organs - one of the sources are natural organs taken from animals. This solution was supposed to fill the gap, which was caused by a high demand for such goods, and at the same time to make it possible to perform transplants without the necessity of coping with moral questions related to taking human organs. However, using new materials for transplants resulted in the arising of new, unknown ethical problems, which will be discussed in this article.

Keywords:

xenotransplantation, experiment, disease, animal, ethics

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Raniszewska-Wyrwa, A. (2018). Experimental Transplantology: Xenotransplantation - Hope or Threat?. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (16), 277–289. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.892

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