Inmates and Organ Transplants: An Ethical Dilemma

In today's medical field there are plenty of moral questions about any procedure performed by medical professionals. According to Karen Judson and Carlene Harrison's book "Medical Career Law and Ethics", morality is defined as the standard of behavior resulting from the concept of good and evil of man (Judson, & Harrison, 2010). With this in mind, organ transplants of prisoners are covered, and many people ask if this question is morally right or wrong.

The field of transplant ethics is a profession in the practice of clinical ethics. The purpose of transplant ethics is to promote the health of transplantation medicine and the welfare of organ donors and organ recipients. Because the organs are very rare and precious gifts, transplant ethics are designed to distribute to people with the ability to benefit from organs. Many ethical dilemmas and complications during transplantation and organ donation, ethical assessment of outbreak patients, failure to accept transplantation not enrolled in insurance or insurance, assessment of patients showing ambiguity in transplantation, and compliance Evaluation of problematic patients

Transplant surgery exploded in the 1980s, especially since the organ transplant was successful in 1953. Along with this there are many legal controversies and moral dilemmas. In order to optimally use important organs, artificially defined ventilation and circulation is necessary to accurately define the brain death of the beating corpses. Surviving organs must be perfused sufficiently to be suitable for procurement and transplantation to recipients who are carefully chosen evenly and chance. Medical and social adaptation should be carefully considered. Currently, allografts dominate the field of organ transplantation; however, due to the lack of human organs, artificial organs (especially the heart) and xenografts are expected to become more and more common in the near future. There is no doubt that using this contemporary technology brings further ethical problems.

In fact, each human organ is usually transplanted and released temporarily or permanently from the morbid state. Organ transplants can extend their longevity, but the problem is whether or not organ transplantation to the human body is ethical, especially whether it is a human head transplant. In the last few years I announced the first human head transplant; however, the ethics of transplantation of the human head has not been officially resolved. Here we present some ethical issues in human head transplantation, focusing on bioethical considerations, psychological effects and reproductive effects.