From organ replacement medicine to genomic precision medicine. Documenting all the way from Organ Donation to Gene Editing: The "Creative Destruction of Medicine". Organ replacement technologies. 3D Bioprinting. Fablabs. DIY Bio. New-Gen Genome Sequencing. Gene Therapy (transplanting genes into cells, rewriting patients' DNA). MOOCs. mHealth.
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Do we own our own body (and genes and organs)? In Rotterdam in 2007, during the congress "Organ Transplantation: Ethical, Legal and Psychological Aspects", a French surgeon, Henri Kreis, MD, presented a text regarding "conditional societal appropriation of body parts": "Whose Organs are they, anyway?"
"Societal conditional appropriation of body parts could well be the best answer to society needs along with the respect of individual autonomy. Society becoming the owner of the corpse, but respecting the autonomy of the person, might be the real answer to all major questions raised today: organ procurement, organ allocation, organ trade, consent, and family involvement. (...) [I]n order to acknowledge the principle of autonomy, a society willing to use the concept of appropriation to favor organ procurement, should accept individual, but not family, refusal to donate, making this appropriation conditional to individual refusal. Decision will derive from a societal imbalance between individual and collective liberty. It is a true societal choice. Currently, in view of other public responses, there is little reason to believe that this concept would be easy to introduce politically, prior to society becoming fully informed and accepting its benefits. The ‘goodwill’ pathway, however, appears to have reached a dead end. Replacement medicine may not survive if we continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Let us keep asking our societies these difficult questions, and hopefully this will generate appropriate responses, even if the process takes some time." Read the whole text here: http://nereja.free.fr/files/Conditional_Apropriation07.pdf
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RépondreSupprimerDo we own our own body (and genes and organs)? In Rotterdam in 2007, during the congress "Organ Transplantation: Ethical,
RépondreSupprimerLegal and Psychological Aspects", a French surgeon, Henri Kreis, MD, presented a text regarding "conditional societal appropriation of body parts": "Whose Organs are they, anyway?"
"Societal conditional appropriation of body parts could well be the best answer to society needs along with the respect of individual autonomy. Society becoming the owner of the corpse, but respecting the autonomy of the person, might be the real answer to all major questions raised today: organ procurement, organ allocation, organ trade, consent, and family involvement. (...) [I]n order to acknowledge the principle of autonomy, a society willing to use the concept of appropriation to favor organ procurement, should accept individual, but not family, refusal to donate, making this appropriation conditional to individual refusal. Decision will derive from a societal imbalance between individual and collective liberty. It is a true societal choice. Currently, in view of other public responses, there is little reason to believe that this concept would be easy to introduce politically, prior to society becoming fully informed and accepting its benefits. The ‘goodwill’ pathway, however, appears to have reached a dead end. Replacement medicine may not survive if we continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Let us keep asking our societies these difficult questions, and hopefully this will generate appropriate responses, even if the process takes some time." Read the whole text here: http://nereja.free.fr/files/Conditional_Apropriation07.pdf