Naslov
Bioethics, law and aging - legal and ethical challenges of aging and organ transplantation

Autori
Nedić, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Aging Society, Rethinking and Redesigning Retirement

Urednik/ci
Barković Bojanić, Ivana ; Erceg, Aleksandar

Izdavač
Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku

Grad
Osijek

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
251-270

ISBN
978-953-253-162-6

Ključne riječi
bioethics ; law ; ethics ; challenges

Sažetak
The issue of organ donation and transplantation is, in first place, an issue of medical excellence of transplantation teams, but also a controversial issue with doubtful bioethical, legal, cultural, religious and other questions. Since medical research are improving constantly, research in the field of organ transplantation are setting new interesting (bio)ethical and legal questions. According to the last population census, there are approximately one million inhabitants in the Republic of Croatia who are older than 60 years and who are also more likely to be on the organ transplantation candidate’s list than the younger inhabitants, because of the various health problems of aging process. Also, according to researches, the median age of 150 patients on chronic dialysis at the Clinical Hospital Centre Osijek is 65.5 years. Since bioethics is a scientific discipline that studies all issues related to life itself, organ transplantation and aging are one of the crucial fields of the human aspect of bioethics. By connecting these two issues, the aim of this paper is to expound the main (bio)ethical and legal problems of organ donation and transplantation and put it into context of the issue of aging in the Republic of Croatia. The main questions that may arise are what are the main problems of older people when it comes to organ donation and transplantation? Are they aware of it? Is there any kind of age discrimination in the process of organ allocation? The author will try to point out these and other bioethical questions when it comes to aging and organ donation and transplantation, and also set a new scheme of awareness when it comes to this issue.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo, Integrativna bioetika (prirodne, tehničke, biomedicina i zdravstvo, biotehničke, društvene, humanističke znanosti)

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