Organ trasplant: Values and human rights

Authors

  • María Luisa Pfeiffer Author Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

There are many constituent elements in the transplant technique making it become paradigmatic for an analysis of both philosophical and ethical nature.

Incarnated in it, we find several ingredients of the cultural paradigm in force today technological support for medical practice, the preeminence of pragmatic conducts, a model of the technical doctor with permission to intrude in a body and mutilate it, the body as a machine, the likelihood of immortality, and freedom as a choice.

This work shows that transplants would be impossible as a practice without the acceptance, with no objection, of any such suppositions that our culture deems valuable. Furthermore, it ethically devises these suppositions and their consequences.

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Author Biography

María Luisa Pfeiffer, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctora en Filosofía. Investigadora, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, Buenos Aires. Docente Unidad de Bioética, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA. Rivadavia 6646 2do. piso, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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How to Cite

Pfeiffer, M. L. (2009). Organ trasplant: Values and human rights. Persona Y Bioética, 10(2). Retrieved from https://personaybioetica.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/personaybioetica/article/view/935

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2006)

Section

Reflection Article

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