Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 56 No. 4, 2020.
Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2020_245228
Transplant tourism
Lada Zibar
; Klinička bolnica Merkur, Zagreb, Hrvatska, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Osijek, Hrvatska
Kristina Šunić
; Dom zdravlja Osijek, Osijek, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Transplant tourism (TT) considers traveling for the purpose of illegal organ donation or transplantation (TX), where the donor sells the “donated” organ (organ trade). The organ in trade is mostly a kidney. Despite a global combating TT, it is still ongoing across the world. Ten percent of all TXs is estimated to be illegal (often TT). Organ shortage and disproportion in socioeconomic state between the donor and the recipient are the main causes of TT. Despite that by that trade organ donors (sellers) often solve existential problems, selling a part of human body for any purpose is not ethically acceptable.
Ključne riječi
ethics; illegal transplantation; organ trade; organ transplantation; transplant tourism
Hrčak ID:
245228
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Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2020.
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