transplantation is a complex medical treatment. Allows organs, tissues or cells of a person to replace organs, tissues or cells from another person sick. In some cases, this action serves to save his life, in others to improve the quality of life or both.
preferential treatment for a large proportion of people with terminal failure of major organs, is the transplantation of organs. The organ transplantation programs for people with terminal kidney failure, heart, lungs or liver have been conducted for many years and now have a high success rate. An increasing number of transplants continues to live twenty years after the operation, and most survive for at least five years.
This matter has been some moral evolution. Evolution responds to the development of philosophical and theological conceptions of the human being, responsibility ethics body, the progress of medical technology, etc ... The issue of transplantation has been considered beyond any mutilation, marketing and instrumentalization of the human body. Ethical standards that now guide the trial is based on integrity and identity of the individual within the community context. We consider then the moral evaluation
four types of transplants:
- autoplastic Transplantation, autologous autograft or
is the transfer of tissue from one place to another within the same agency, also called an autograft. In assessing moral no problem, since, according to the principle of totality, you can sacrifice some for the good of the whole organism. It is important that there is a reasonable justification and proportionality between the risks and benefits. It is noteworthy that those transplants for cosmetic surgery pose no moral problems when there are physical reasons that have psychological impact on the appearance interrelation between the individual and his personal evolution.
- Xen or transplantation or Heterotransplantation
transplant tissue or organ of an animal to the human body. Poses no moral problem for the world animal is "in the service of man. This type of transplant would be objectionable if it implied a change in the man's personal identity or a serious disruption of its complexity.
homograft transplantation in two different bodies but the same species, one must distinguish between vital and non vital organs.
are vital organs or tissues which, in his absence, do not put the donor at risk of death or imminent death, namely, among others: blood transfusion, skin fragments, small fragments of bone, tendon segments, etc ... Their morality is a dye positive as is a sign of human solidarity.
Vital organs can be simple or unique bodies and organs doubles. Organ transplantation simple or unique would be tantamount to murder. It is morally unacceptable. In the case of a vital organ transplant has twice been a subject of study and discussion among Catholic moralists. Win acceptance because of the principles of charity, the principle of totality, the principle of human solidarity and Christian, etc ...
- After homoplastic of dead plant
transplantation of an organ donor is a body which is not considered a moral problem, provided to avoid two extremes: first, considering the body as a thing, without due respect it deserves means a human body, secondly the excessive reverence to the degree of par with a human. If the body of a dead body may keep alive a sick or dying, the transplant did not go against the body but would humanity of the deceased. However, it has to respect the emotional burden of family and friends of the sensitivity and charity difunto.Será take into account the prior will of the deceased and, failing that, the next of kin. It is certain the legality of removing an organ from a cadaver to benefit a patient, and can sometimes become mandatory but a moral responsibility is not one that is based on the charge, but in the invitation to growth and sensitivity to others' pain.
is one last type of transplant is syngeneic
and occurs when the donor and recipient are identical twins or identical twins. In this case both individuals are genetically identical and completely avoids the problem of rejection.