Science and Technology - Medicine

Science and Technology - Medicine

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Reconstructive / cosmetic surgery

   • burn victims
   • people who are not confident with themselves
   • face transplant

5. Are we playing god?