Open AccessEtyczne zagadnienia transplantacji
Author(s) -
Dieter Biernbacher
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
etyka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1161
pISSN - 0014-2263
DOI - 10.14394/etyka.642
Subject(s) - duty , autonomy , law , law and economics , psychology , sociology , environmental ethics , political science , philosophy
The author discusses some ethical problems connected with taking human organs for transplantation from living and dead people. First of all, he asks whether being an organ giver should be taken as our moral duty. It seems to be the duty of heart in Kantian terms. Various possibilities in the legal regulation of taking organs are considered here as well as the criteria and forms of their distribution. None of them, however, can be satisfying because of the inescapable conflict between the principle of utility and that of autonomy.