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Bioethical dimension of organ transplantation

According to the rapid development of modern medicine technology, we are witnessing it's great influence above the improvement and prolongation of human life. Scientific breakthroughs in the fields of immunology, farmacology, transfusion medicine and surgery, made transplantation of the human organs and tissues, possible. This thesis exposits the historical development of transplantation, since its beginning, in the world and in Croatia. Increasing numbers of organ donors in Croatia talk for themselves about organ donation consciousness in the republic. However, the issue of transplantation brings with itself a lot of moral and bioethical questions. To make sure that human beings are not monetized and manipulated with in transplantation medicine, a multitude of universal social, legal and medical norms had been passed. Bioethical regulations and ethics of responsibility which includes the categories of gift and solidarity – forms of our morality – are also addressed in this thesis. Christianity and other religions view transplantation as an honest gift to and love of others.

transplantation, organ sources, moral, bioethics, law

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