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PubMed1992

The ER incident.

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PubMed1990

The case: a story found and lost.

This first case in our series presents an elderly patient's encounters with the medical system as chronicled in her medical records.

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PubMed1987

In vitro technology: a threat to the covenant.

The meaning of human sexuality, according to Catholic moral theology, can be appropriately expressed only within the confines of the marital covenant. Children in this moral perspective are created within the sphere of the marital embrace, which is expressive of conjugal intimacy and procreative power. In vitro fertilization and other artificial reproductive methods, which carry the risk of procreating new life beyond the sphere of marriage, therefore pose significant ethical questions concerning respect for life, the integrity of marriage, and the need to guide technological mastery with wisdom. Some ethicists suggest that in vitro technology may be permissible if embryo wastage is not significantly greater than during normal reproduction. Other moralists, however, recommended stronger protections for nascent life. The human embryo, they caution, should not become an object to be manipulated or used as a means to an end, even though the goal is to alleviate infertility. Concern for depersonalization, one of the chief reasons for Catholic moral teaching's objection to artificial insemination by donor, also applies to the new reproductive technologies. Ethicists have reached a wide consensus on this point, agreeing that procreation should not be divorced from the context of martial intimacy. As society deals with the problems of infertility and advances its technology, those who are involved in the new reproductive methods must also explore the ethicl issues concerned. One possible resource would be a broad-based ethics committee to advise couples, medical professionals, infertility clinics, and other agencies about the risks and possibilities of new research. Hospital ethics committees also could help resolve complex issues.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1987

Body futures: the case against marketing human organs.

Creation of a market for the buying and selling of human organs for transplantation, even if it did allow supply to match demand, would be a serious mistake. Even if the market were fairly constructed, it might not dramatically increase the supply of transplantable organs, since donations likely would decrease if selling were allowed. Such a market would create a relative disadvantage for the poor, who would feel disproportionately greater pressure to sell their organs than would the wealthy. The possibility of realizing a profit from the organs of the dead could provide an incentive for murder or for doing less than we might to save lives. An organ market, where parts of a person are viewed as commodities, could lead to a general cheapening and coarsening of human relationships. Any organ selling system would create an economic relationship between buyer and seller, rather than a charitable one, raising quality control problems. The economic system, would drive out the volunteer donor system, sapping the altruistic bond that draws people together. Finally, an organ market presents a metaphysical threat in that it demeans our bodies to the status of articles to trade. An alternative to the current voluntary donor system and an organ market is to presume passive consent to organ donation with the right to informed refusal. Unless a record of the decedent's opposition to organ removal exists, the next of kin objects on being informed of the intent to remove organs, or the decedent was a member of a group known to oppose organ removal, we should presume a person's willingness to donate organs after death to save another person's life.

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PubMed2000

A concise rebuttal.

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