...The organ shortage: To market, or not to market? Jessica Peabody Baker College Organ transplantation is a term that most people are familiar with. When a person develops the need for a new organ either due to an accident or disease, they receive a transplant, right? No, that's not always right. When a person needs a new organ, they usually face a long term struggle that they may never see the end of, at least while they are alive. The demand for transplant organs is a challenging problem that many people are working to solve. Countries all over the world face the organ shortage epidemic, and they all have different laws regarding what can be done to solve it. However, no country has been able to create a successful plan without causing moral and ethical dilemmas. The organ shortage is at a critical level, and unless a better system is devised, it will continue to get worse. The debate on whether to legalize and regulate organ trade through the free market has become a very controversial issue in the last decade. The shortage of organs is a problem the increases dramatically every day. In 2010, there were more than 112,000 people on the organ waiting list in the United States. However, there were only 14,507 donors. Of those donors, only 6,564 were "live donors" (UNOS, 2010). Organ trafficking is rising in popularity due to the constant increase in demand for organs and the continuous decrease in supply. Trafficking is the illegal trade of human organs such as the heart...
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...world, people wait on the transplant list to receive an organ. The amount of time one spends on the transplant list depends on how many organs are donated and if there is an organ that matches the recipient’s organ’s unique structure. Since the normal wait time on the transplant list is around three to five years (“The Waiting,” 2014, para. 5), people are looking for additional ways to receive an organ. The black market is one of the options available in which one will pay for the necessary organ. In the United States, the National Organ Transplant Act prohibits the sale of organs; it says that, “human body parts should not be viewed as commodities” (“National,” 2003, para. 1). This means that human organs...
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...The National Organ Transplant Act implemented in 1984, prohibits the ability "for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce." If human organs become a commodity in an open market, several ethical moral issues will arise. An open market is a freely competitive market in which any buyer or seller may trade and in which prices are determined by competition. One of the most highly demanded organs is the kidney but because demand is rising so high, supply is short and people cannot get what they need in time. For every 100,000 transplant operations needed each year, only 10,000 are performed. In my opinion, allowing open market organ donations should remain illegal firstly because, people could be coerced, in other words, forced by persuasion or threat to sell their organ. Secondly, the open market would discriminate against the poor who do not have the financial means to pay for a needed organ and thus will have to constantly complete against the rich. Thirdly, there is always the risk of citizens going around murdering one another to obtain an organ to sell leading into illicit trading and potentially, the...
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...Health Care Market and Organ Donation The writer will explain in the following paragraphs how the lack of resources affects the organ donation market, and the choices some stakeholders have to make. The writer will also describe economics flows that affect the health care market. The reader will learn what are some causes of change in supply and demand, and how the change affects the equilibrium price and quantity. The writer will also present if the pricing decisions for this market is elastic or inelastic, and how does that affect the decisions. Lack of Resources The market on health care for organ donation is very interesting at the moment because of the vital part physicians and hospitals play in providing health care, it is imperative to think if incentives would manipulate their decisions concerning organ donations for recipients. The scarcity of resources significantly influences this market because it is reliant upon donors and extremely specific to a match to be triumphant. The topic of organ transplant has a particular interest to the writer because her husband of 20 years was told 13 years ago he eventually needs to have a heart transplant. The writer ask if he could be put on the waiting list for a donor and was told it was not possible because he needed to wait for his heart to be worst than what it was; it was only working 19% and basically to be put on the list he must have been about to die to put him on the list, plus have some type of medical coverage. Once...
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...All around the world people have acquired a great desperation that they are willing to be seduced to the exploitation of the black market organ donation system. There have also been reports of children being kidnapped and killed for their organs in South America. All countries should not allow the black markets organs donations because they take advantage of those people who are in desperate need for an organ, they practice surgeries in unsanitary environments with unprofessional doctors, and they sometimes perform surgeries without the consent of the person. First of all, they take advantage of those people who are in desperate need for an organ. The trade has risen to such a level that around 10,000 black market operations take place annually...
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...Selling Human Organ A farmer in an Indian village wants more than anything else in the world to send his child to college. To raise money, he sells his spare kidney to an American in need of a transplant. A few years later, as the farmer’s second child approaches college age, another buyer comes to his village and offers a handsome price for his second kidney. Should he be free to sell that one, too, even if going without a kidney would kill him (Sandel 72)? Some might object that, regardless of whether the practice already exists, it is clear that legalizing it would make it worse. Not only that, but it seems like the person would become like a marketplace selling his organs. If someone had mentioned that they want to donate their kidney to someone and dies, then it is fine. Then suppose that the person starts selling his kidney or any other organ of his body. Basically he or she is doing it for money, but what if the person's other kidney got damaged? Then what would the person do? Besides it will be a stronger cause of corruption because many people are poor and need money to feed their families so they sell their kidneys; however, this may cause future health problems to that person. Selling organs is wrong and it should not be allowed. Selling an organ is menacing, even for those organs which can be removed without killing the donor. Murphy say,“isn’s it more dangerous to have black market organ transactions?”(1). This is normally the first protestation embossed after...
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...unacceptable. Selling one’s body parts solely for profit is unethical. Hagar Gov-Ari states, “This would give the wealthy an unfair advantage for “obtaining donated organs and tissues.” By creating a “rich survive, poor perish” situations, what should be life saving becomes an unbalanced and dirty practice that could potentially overthrow the whole medical system” (Gov-Ari). This action is unethical because one puts their needs and greed of profit over their morals. This loss of morals can not only put an innocent...
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...The outside of your view Organ and tissue harvesting is a very big issue. People die every single day and or suffer from pain. The organs go to the doctors to tell for money, and the needed organ goes to someone who needs it. Organ removal, while not as prevalent as sex and labor trafficking, is quite real and widespread. Those targeted are sometimes killed or left for dead. More frequently poor and desperate people are lured by false promises.( Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka) The reason that they take poor and desperate people is because of these people have really nothing to fight for. They don’t know what’s going to happen when they go to trust someone who promises that they will be in a better place. Also they will get food and a place to go, but yet, they don’t go anywhere but a surgery table. This goes back a while. Like years and years. It’s mostly in china. But it also happens in other places too. Like in the Africa area and Egypt ect. In china, they do it in a different way. They do it in rooms like in hospitals and also right in public. They go on public streets and do the surgery. Everyone can see what happens and people sit there and watch too. This is okay in china; you cannot get in trouble from doing this. It’s normal there. Organ and tissue harvesting is basically a type of human trafficking where sick people either kidnap or trick people of all ages to come in to get surgery. When they get surgery, a lot goes on. They get put down to sleep...
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...different ways and that some may find this practice offensive and others might take a different approach. The practice of selling organs in the black market is nothing new and has been going on for a long time around the world. In some countries we here about people being kidnapped and their organs being taken against their will. There are also those who sell their organs for money which again brings into question this practice; especially if the person receiving the kidney has an idea on how they acquired the kidney. In the video it is alleged that the kidneys are coming from prisoners guilty of committing some form of crime and sentenced to death. Should the fact that we know this information change our thought about this practice if it is in fact true? If a murderer in the United States was going to be executed by lethal injection but it was discovered his kidney could save a life; would it not seem right to obtain that kidney? After all the murderers future had already been determined. In the United States alone there are over 20 million people with some form of chronic kidney disease that may require a kidney. While people’s opinion may differ on these doesn’t it seem right that if a person, who is guilty of a crime, is sentenced to die should at the very least serve some kind of purpose; which in this case is having their organ used whether they agree to or not? If you were a healthy adult I’m sure you would be appalled, but if you were to walk into a dialysis...
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...Who Gets The Liver? An Ethical Dilemma Carrie R. Martin, R.N. N4510 Conceptual Thinking March 16, 2014 Keeping someone alive by giving them a new organ is a great achievement in medicine. Unfortunately, demand far outweighs supply when it comes to the organ market. People die daily while waiting on their new organ. The topic of distribution of procured organs brings many ethics questions into focus. The biggest of these in my opinion is deciding who will receive the procured organ. I was given the task of deciding who would receive a liver from a list of four potential recipients in an imaginary scenario. The four patients all have a rare tissue type and it is unlikely that another liver will be available that will match for months or even years. Patient number one is a 65-year-old male with four adult children whose wife depends on him for care of a debilitating illness. His liver was damaged by cirrhosis due to alcoholism. Patient number two is a 35-year-old female who is married with two small children. Her liver damage was caused by a chronic illness. Patient number three is a 21-year-old single male whose liver was damaged by a Tylenol overdose. Patient number four is a 28-year-old female who is married with 5 children under the age of 10. She is an illegal immigrant farm worker whose liver was damaged due to exposure to a chemical that was sprayed on the crops where she works. Very little information was given on each person. The first piece of...
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...United Colors of Benetton defined as “shock advertising.” Most of Benetton’s advertisements have been known to cause great controversy and disgust, especially because their advertisements did not directly relate to any of the merchandise they sell. However, by deviating from generic marketing strategies such as hiring clothes models or relying on the aesthetic appeal of their stores, United Colors of Benetton pursues a superior motive of promoting tolerance in society and creating an active democracy without ideological borders. Additionally, their brand does not communicate with the consumer, but with an individual. This cannot target an age group but rather a shared vision of issues that need to be addressed. Therefore, they attract their market through the use of pathos to emotionally appeal to consumers, which creates a collective awareness for social issues such as capital punishment, AIDS, and race relations. The social issue of racism is addressed in the advertisement that will be analyzed in the following critical response. “The Three Hearts” was launched in conjunction with SOS Racism, a French anti-racist NGO, and it depicts an image of three graphic human hearts overprinted with the words “White, Black, Yellow” respectively. Toscani displays the identical hearts on a flat white surface to indicate homogeny and reiterate the biological similarities of all human bodies. Initially, this image inspires a mood...
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...VOICE OF HEALTH Healer.A.Umar Farook, M.Acu., D.Ed (Acu) English Translation: Healer.R.Gnanamurthy, M.Acu., D.Ed (Acu) Edited by: Malarvizhi VOICE OF HEALTH Healer.A.Umar Farook, M.Acu., D.Ed (Acu) First Published : November, 2010 Published by Indian Universities Press 421, Anna Salai, im print of Bharathi Puthagakalayam Teynampet, Chennai - 600 018 Email: thamizhbooks@gmail.com www.thamizhbooks.com Ph: 044-24332424, 24332924, 24339024 Rs.100/\ print: Jothi Enterprices, Chennai -5 Thanks to ACUPUNCTURE HEALERS ORGANISATION Hr.Bose.K.Mohamed Meera Hr.Magi Ramalingam Hr.P.V.Devarajan Hr.M.J.Pandian Hr.P.M.Umar Farook CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Learning Language Health is Strength Immunity is Life Eat Hunger Fate Prevails! One plus One is not Two Creating and Protecting Disease an Imagination Diseases of Exact Science 5 7 9 12 14 16 19 22 25 27 30 34 40 44 52 56 60 68 77 10. Quietness is Pleasantness! 11. Waste stagnation causes Death! 12. Action and Reaction 13. Reason behind Stories 14. Shining and the Sign! 15. Elixir is Venom 16. Thirst - Hunger as per requirement! 17. Milk - is it Food? 18. Poison-less Food 19. Love Nature! Come back to Nature 1 Learning Language E veryone has their own language. Expressing our needs, sharing our feelings – it is through language that we create our relationships with others. Language is a necessary communication tool for people. Beyond our mother tongue, we learn languages of neighboring...
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...Pre-Preparation1. Washing. Wash fish upon arrival from the market. Scales may or may not removed. 2. Splitting. Split fish on the dorsal side starting from the tail to the head by running the edge of the knife along the backbone. 3. Removal of internal organs. Lay fish open like butterfly fillet. Remove gills and internal organs. Wash fish to remove blood and dirt. The black membrane covering the belly cavity may or may not be removed depending upon the consumers choice. Wash fish in running water. 4. Removal of backbone dorsal fin. Remove backbone by laying fish flat on the cutting board with the skin down. Hold the knife in a horizontal/slanting position and cut in with the tip of the blade along the backbone from the head to tail. Trim off the dorsal fin. Deboning It is important to know the exact location of the spines most especially the the intermascular spines. Total number of spines 196-208(don’t be silly. don’t count the spines. I just put it for illustration purposes:-). Place fish in the shallow tray. With the end of the mosquito forceps, start removing the spines. 1. Rib bones. The bones are located in the belly cavity. They are visible and superficially embedded thus easy to pull out. 2. Dorsal intermascular spines. Make a superficial slit from head to tail along the dent of the dorsal muscle. Pull out the embedded intermascular spines one at a time.The spines on the head portion are branched spines while the rest are unbranched...
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...The Real “Consequences” of Legalizing Organ Sales For decades, generations have been hesitant to modernize. Whether it involves fashion, culture, healthcare, or even racial integration, society tends to reject anything that indicates reformation. Due to this, a taboo is trademarked on to the organ donation market; moreover, this taboo is engraved because it is currently illegal in the United States. The Black Market is an illegal system that makes profit over immoral businesses. These include things like human trafficking, children, and drugs. But, selling organs to those who need it is not among these immoral things. While compensation is a huge benefit of organ donation, the ultimate reward would be saving someone's life. According to Anthony...
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...animals have similar organ systems and body processes. Experiments on animals help scientists increase knowledge about the way the human body works. In the United States, scientists perform experiments on more than twenty million animals each year. Medical researchers study animals to get a better understanding of body processes in humans and animals. They use many animals to study the causes and effects of illnesses, such as cancer and heart disease. Vivisection is the most controversial issue of animal rights. Vivisection actually means “cutting a living thing”. Some popular companies that still test on animals are Band-Aid, Clorox, Febreze, Maybelline, and many more. Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold cages in labs across the country. They suffer in pain, ache with loneliness and long to be free. All they can do is sit in their cages and wait, in fear, for the next experiment to begin. The stress actually causes the animals to begin strange behavior like pulling out their hair and biting at their own skin. They jump in fear whenever someone walks past, scared that they will be chosen. After going through this terrible life, almost all of these animals are killed. I feel animals are tested for meaningless numbers on a chart and then killed. There are many cheap, faster, and non-animal tests that can replace the ones that are out there now. The first realistic software models of human and animal organs are starting to...
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