SOMMAIRE

 Topic presentation

Pros and cons

Debate
Topic presentation
Problematic

Should we legalize, forbid sales

of human organs or find a
compromise between both of
them?
Oistory

ë 1905 First Successful Cornea Transplant

ë 1954 First Successful Kidney Transplant
ë 1955 First Oeart Valve and Artery Transplants
ë 1963 First Successful Lung Transplant
ë 1967 First Successful Liver and Ouman heart
Transplant
ë 1968 First Organ Donor Programs Established
ë 2000 Population of Kidney Failure Patients
Grows
ë 2003 Eighteen People Die Each Day on the
Waiting List
Figures

30% people die before to find an organ

The Actors
Transplanted
Older, Wealthy or
powerful

Doctor Go between
Disobey to medicine Criminals , bandit,
laws & ethic from mafias

Donor
Poors, sick, children,
dead or victims
The creation of an illegal market
ë Sick or dying human being can receive transplanted organs

ë Some of those organs must inevitably come from cadavers but some
transplanted organs can come from living people (kidney)

ë Ouge increase in demand for transplantable organs

ë Supply has not kept up with demand

ë Illegal market to provide the need.

Wealthy to healthy
ë Not many people choose to be organ donors after their death.

ë People choose an alternative to legal procedures.

ë Go abroad to buy organs

ë Cruel dilemma: Shall I continue to suffer while waiting for

a legal transplant and maybe die or shall I buy an illegal
kidney abroadǥ?
Traffic locations

( China
( Philippines
( Pakistan
( Egypt
( Colombia
(Eastern Europe
Did you knowǥ

ë A man tried to sell his kidney on e-bay. The

last bid was 5.7M US$

ë In India & Latin America you can find organs

ads in the newspapers

ë In china, prisoners are almost the only source

of cadaveric organs
Should we legalize, forbid sales of human organs
or find a compromise between both of them?
A one way market

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ë Wealthy people: spend ë Dig the gap between the
their own money to save rich and the poor
their own lives

ë Costs on dialysis machine ë When an organ is donated,

and treatment are much it transplanted regardless
higher than a transplant of the financial situation

ë Only the rich will survive

Financial facet
Ô

ë Organ sale is a real benefit
for the donor and his
family
ë An individual can decide
either to donate or sell
these organs


ë Low living standard in Asia
and Africa makes
individuals victims of organ
merchants.
ë Financial reward make the
decision made.
 An end to traffic

Ô

ë Legalization will end
corruption and murder
ë Origin of organ known for a
better transplantation


ë Legalization will legitimize
human sacrifice ( Chinese
prisoners)

ë Defeat black market

Availability

Ô
 

ë Presumed consent is a ë Doctors assume that the
euphemism organs be used for transplant

ë The US department propose

ë The sale would increase a website would link each
the quantity of organs actors

ë The BMA envisages to

develop a team who try to
find any available organ on
cadaveric donor
Links with others markets

Ô
 

ë With payment, the ë The US market is not
healthcare services can successful because of
produce anti reaction drugs infected blood

ë The US already tolerates ë Putting a price on the

market of blood and human body only invites
human eggs exploitation by the
scrupulous
DEBATE

Should we legalize, forbid sales of human organs or

find a compromise between both of them?

ë What if it was youǥ