Health Talk: Ethnics of Organ Transplantation

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1 Health Talk: Ethnics of Organ TransplantationPresenter: Dr. Many & Dr. Much Only On

2 Case 1: iPhone or iKedney?Fact Shortage of transplantable organs Lack of volunteer donors 17-year-old boy in Anhui traded his kidney for iPhone5.

3 Problem 1: Source Dying people Executed prisoners Immediate relativesStem cells (still in research) Organ donors (15000:1)

4 Question 1: Should organ trade be legalized?

5 Question 2: When to stop end-of-life care and start organ harvesting?

6 Question 3: Should we forbid or encourage the use of human embryo?

7 Case 2: Who moved my kidney?Someone simply jumped the queue after others’ 6- month waiting.

8 Problem 2: DistributionTheoretically Equal Access Maximum benefit Practically Unequal treatment Maximum revenue

9 Question 1: Should people who haven’t had a transplant be given priority over those who have already had one?

10 Question 2: Should people whose lifestyle choices damaged their organ be given a chance?

11 Question 3: Should suicidal individuals be given an organ transplant?

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