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The Regulation Of Xenotransplantation In The Uk After Ukxira: Legal And Ethical Issues’, Laura Williamson, Marie Fox, Sheila Mclean
The Regulation Of Xenotransplantation In The Uk After Ukxira: Legal And Ethical Issues’, Laura Williamson, Marie Fox, Sheila Mclean
Dr Laura Williamson
Xenotransplantation - the transfer of living tissue between species - has long been heralded as a potential solution to the severe organ shortage crisis experienced by the United Kingdom and other `developed' nations. However, the significant risks which accompany this biotechnology led the United Kingdom to adopt a cautious approach to its regulation, with the establishment of a non-departmental public body - UKXIRA - to oversee the development of this technology on a national basis. In December 2006 UKXIRA was quietly disbanded and replaced with revised guidance, which entrusts the regulation of xenotransplantation largely to research ethics committees. In this …
Not Compatible With Life, Arthur Lang
Not Compatible With Life, Arthur Lang
Arthur Lang
Novelties Compassion Compassion, like the concept of good, is not means to something else. It simply exists. It exists between man and man, parent and child, and between God and man. The compassion between parent and child correlates to the compassion between God and man. We pray that God has compassion for us as a parent has compassion for a child. This correlation is the source of the conception of the other man as the fellow man, someone worthy of compassion. Compassion is the recognition of moral being. It is the substantiation of another, the recognition of his or her …