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What Are the Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Organs?
Author(s) -
Cortesini R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
artificial organs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.684
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1525-1594
pISSN - 0160-564X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1594.1985.tb04361.x
Subject(s) - power (physics) , engineering ethics , environmental ethics , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , psychology , engineering , quantum mechanics , physics
Let me introduce some basic principles and fundamental justifications for our moral attitude in medicine before discussing the problems of artificial organs. It is clear that the enormous increase of power in the hands of doctors raises many questions that have never previously been posed. “Science has made us gods before we are even worthy of being men” (1). Such an acquisition of power would demand a “supplément d‘âme,” as Pope John Paul II said, which we are not sure of possessing.