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Is the Unified List System for Organ Transplants Fair? Analysis of Opinions from Different Groups in Brazil
Author(s) -
Ávila Gustavo Noronha De,
Ávila Gerson Antônio De,
Gauer Gabriel José Chittó
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8519.00358
Subject(s) - impossibility , dilemma , subject (documents) , population , moral dilemma , process (computing) , organ donation , psychology , sociology , medicine , social psychology , law , transplantation , epistemology , political science , computer science , surgery , philosophy , library science , operating system , demography
In the 1960s, when Dr. Belding Scribner discovered how to accomplish the process of dialysis in a repeated way, he could not imagine that in solving such a problem others as or more difficult would appear. Given the technological progress and the impossibility of assisting all patients through the most modern methods, the medical doctor often finds himself faced with the moral dilemma of choosing which patient in the waiting list will receive the treatment. This same dilemma is amplified in the case of organ transplants. Professionals, students, professors of the juridical and health fields, and the population in general, were interviewed as a means of documenting the moral concepts and opinions surrounding this problem. In the reality in which we find ourselves, it seems to us that deciding who lives, and the responsibility for all the events that culminate in such decisions, is still a subject left open to discussion.