2. Ethical questions about basic human
values-The Rights to life and health- in the
development of practices such as assisted
suicide, abortion, gene therapy, etc.
Investigation and a study of ways in
which decisions in medicine and science
touch upon our society and
environment.
Related to beliefs, the culture and
thoughts of each person
3. Abortion
Artificial insemination
Artificial life
Assisted suicide
Blood transfusion
Cloning
Euthanasia
Exorcism
Organ donation
Organ transplant
Reproductive rights
Sperm and egg donation
Suicide
Transexuality
Genetically modified
organism
4. The permanent cessation of all
biological functions.
CAUSES: biological aging, malnutrition,
disease, suicide, murder and accidents or
trauma resulting in terminal injury.
Types of Death: Heart-Lung Failure
Brain Death: The irreversible end of all
brain activity
Whole-Brain Death:
without technological
intervention, neither
their heart nor their
lungs will do anything.
Higher Brain Death: the death
of those parts of the brain
responsible for consciousness
and higher reasoning . In this
case there is no ethical reason
to keep the body alive.
5. Organ transplantation is the moving of
an organ from one body to another or
from a donor site to another location on
the patients own body.
Nowadays, you can choose to
donate your organs or not.
Transplants save and transform lives; but the
only way to get an organ is to take it from
someone else, and this has produced a set of
moral problems.
As it occurs in keeping somebody alive trough
the use of machines and technology, organ
transplantation depends of our individual
decisions, and of our thoughts.
6. Questions
1- What is your opinion about people who
donate their organs? Would you donate
your organs to help someone else?
2-What would you do if you had to keep
somebody alive artificially?
Costoya; Hegel; Much & Vignolo.
7. Questions
1- What is your opinion about people who
donate their organs? Would you donate
your organs to help someone else?
2-What would you do if you had to keep
somebody alive artificially?
Costoya; Hegel; Much & Vignolo.