“What We Need to Know about Organ Harvesting” (Pls. insert your Name) 2007. Insights into the trade of various body parts in different countries of the world, its prevalence, risks and regulations made by individual countries and by the international body of human rights. This paper shows that the major breakthrough of organ transplant is not without its negative repercussions. The supply and demand are unequal with the supply in shortage over the worldwide demand for organ donors.
China has allegedly emerged as the number one “harvester” of these body parts, and because of this, the Pandora’s Box has been opened to a plethora of grave consequences. These include unethical dismemberment of dead persons’ bodies, premature “killing” of victims or patients, and the complications and incidence or percentage of the recipients’ bodies’ rejections of the presence of the foreign organ transplanted unbeknownst to the patient and families.
These are but some of the harmful effects of this modern-day breakthrough in medicine. II. Introduction ~ Why the need to understand the nature of Organ Harvesting? Behind the good prospect of acquiring a “fresh” and “healthy” organ for the patients and their families waiting for their turn are medical malpractice and deprivation of rights from prospective “donors. ” There are many things involved and at stake whenever organ donation is raised as the issue.
There are the donors and the risks that they put their lives into (not to mention the “unwilling” donors who cannot protest to the malpractice), the recipients’ gamble of what might happen despite the prospect of receiving a new organ, and the ethics involved in the deepening complications of organ harvesting. This paper attempts to shed light into the world of organ harvesting: What it is, its prevalence and its repercussions on the people involved, regulations made on the trade if any, and future ramifications.