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Organ Procurement, Values And Public Policy, Ronald P. Hamel
Organ Procurement, Values And Public Policy, Ronald P. Hamel
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
The success of organ transplants in recent years has created a shortage of transplantable cadaver organs. Voluntarism, the primary mode of organ procurement currently in use nationwide, appears to be no longer successful. Policy makers and others are examining alternatives to the current system, namely, presumed consent (routine salvaging) and required request. In this process, there is a danger in considering only the effectiveness of the means and neglecting the value and belief commitments that underlie them. These need to be brought to the surface because they ultimately contribute toward shaping the moral character of society. In this light, required …
Some Moral And Ethical Dilemmas Of Science In The 1970'S, Yvonne C. Condell
Some Moral And Ethical Dilemmas Of Science In The 1970'S, Yvonne C. Condell
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Some critics of the scientific community - scientists and non-scientists - believe that scientists should become more socially responsible, that science should be tolerated only as long as its results are socially beneficial, and that science must be constitutionalized and controlled if it is not to destroy civilization.