Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Science and Technology -
Medicine
- Organ Donation
- is the process of providing a person with one or
more of another person's organs / tissues / blood
- Donated organs are removed from a deceased
or living donor through a surgical procedure
- organs
- kidney
- parts of the
pancreas
- lung
- liver
- heart
- tissue
- blood
- Genetics and
Cloning
- Advantages
- Solve fertility
problems
- Organ and tissue harvesting
- Filling a void
- bring back people who died
- Designer Babies
- enables parents to
choose the characteristics
of their baby
- Fighting genetic diseases
- Disadvantages
- Cloned humans may suffer from
prejudices and discrimination
- Risk of Mutations
- Development of new diseases
- Ethical issues
- cloning = playing god?
- insufficient research
- Therapeutic
cloning
- Pros
- cure a tissue or diseases
- people can have a normal life
- diseases become treatable
- revolution in medical therapy
- Embryonic stem cells can develop in
every body cell >> pluripotent
- Cons
- It's not okay to take a young life in order to save an old one
- human life should be protected
- adult stem cells are safer
- cells can turn into tumors
- life begins at fertilization
- Reconstructive /
cosmetic surgery
- burn victims
- people who are not confident with themselves
- face transplant
- Are we playing god?