Bioethical Issues Concerning the Problem of Implanting Artificial Organs and Tissue Cover Image

Bioetički sadržaji u problemu ugradnje umjetnih organa i tkiva
Bioethical Issues Concerning the Problem of Implanting Artificial Organs and Tissue

Author(s): Nada Gosić
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo

Summary/Abstract: Implanting of organs and tissue opens a new dimension for scientific contemplation on the ethical permissibility of what is technically possible in medicine. On one hand, replacing diseased organs and tissue with artificial ones actualizes the traditional issues of medical ethics. Namely, the understanding of life and death, the fragility of the human body and enduring pain and suffer. On the other hand, this technical achievement creates a vision, encourages hope and the ambition to completely rule over human lives and destinies. The involvement of different sciences and professions, occupations and vocations concerned with this problem, is necessary for a complete comprehension of the two aspects of the same problem. Together they will contribute to resolving the problem of ethical permissibility of the technical possibilities of the observed problem. The interdisciplinary approach to its enlightenment defines the subject matters of the problem or the bioethical subject matters.

  • Issue Year: 23/2003
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 363-373
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian