Open AccessA Political-Health Emergency: Ending Social Tragedy of Organ Shortage
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2577-8005
DOI - 10.33140/mcr.06.01.06
Subject(s) - tragedy (event) , economic shortage , politics , organ transplantation , transplantation , medicine , political science , intensive care medicine , sociology , law , social science , surgery , philosophy , linguistics , government (linguistics)
The transplantation of organs and tissues became a medical reality in the 1950s. Fundamentally, it generated the possibility, never achieved except by haemodialysis in the case of the kidney, to solve end-stage organ failure.