| Xenotransplantation, consent and international justice. | |
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PMID: 19416345 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The risk posed to the community by possible xenozoonosis after xenotransplantation suggests that some form of 'community consent' is required before whole organ animal-to-human xenotransplantation should take place. I argue that this requirement places greater obstacles in the path of ethical xenotransplantation than has previously been recognised. The relevant community is global and there are no existing institutions with democratic credentials sufficient to establish this consent. The distribution of the risks and benefits from xenotransplantation also means that consent is unlikely to be forthcoming. Proceeding on the basis of hypothetical consent to a package of global health measures that includes xenotransplantation, as Rothblatt has recently advocated, is more problematic than she acknowledges. Given that it may place the lives of citizens of poor nations at risk to benefit the citizens of wealthy nations, xenotransplantation raises significant questions of international justice. |
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Authors:
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Robert Sparrow |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2009-03-11 |
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Title: Developing world bioethics Volume: 9 ISSN: 1471-8847 ISO Abbreviation: Dev World Bioeth Publication Date: 2009 Dec |
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Created Date: 2009-12-21 Completed Date: 2010-02-04 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101120122 Medline TA: Dev World Bioeth Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 119-27 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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Centre for Human Bioethics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. |
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Animals Coercion Developed Countries Developing Countries* Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control Health Services Accessibility / ethics*, organization & administration, trends Humans Informed Consent / ethics* Internationality* Primary Prevention / ethics Social Justice* / ethics Transplantation, Heterologous / ethics* World Health* Zoonoses / epidemiology, transmission* |
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