2nd International Ethics Symposium
2nd International Ethics Symposium: Giving or receiving an organ. Right, obligation, duty (29 March - 31 March 2007)
Giving or receiving an organ is something made possible by modern medicine that could touch any of us at some time or another. It is therefore important to think about it today.
We do of course understnad this practice ‘in general terms’. This second international ethics symposium set out to consider the changes that have occurred in recent years. New techniques have emerged, such as ‘donation after cardiac death’. New ways of handling organ donation are being accepted in many countries (though not in France, for the moment), such as the purchase of organs, ordering on-line, etc. New risks are also emerging. New medications are attempting to combat rejection by the immune system.
What should we think about all this? Is it easy to donate an organ? Is it any easier to accept one? Is there an obligation to donate? What do faiths, cultures and societies believe? What are the anthropological implications, e.g. paired exchanges? What ethically just attitude should we be promoting?
