Organ Transplantation

Introduction

Organ transplantation is a medical act which involves the surgical operating by transferring or removing of an organ from one person to the other, or placing the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient for the replacement of the recipients damaged or failed organ which resulted from impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism or an act that causes someone to receive physical damage.

Lately, there is an emerging innovation whereby organs are created to form and increase in size by a process of inorganic accretion, from the patient’s cell. This field of medicine is known as the regenerative medicine. In addition to this, there are basically various types of regenerative medical transplanting which are known as the auto graft, allograft organic transplantation, iso-graft, xeno-graft and xenotransplantation, Split transplants, and Domino transplantation (Schicktanz, 2010, p4).

According to the surgical field of medical profession, transplantation is performed in various parts of the human organ which are liver, heart, kidneys, lungs, intestine, pancreas and the thymus. Consequently, the transplantation of the kidney happens to be the most widely embraced worldwide.

However, the donors of these organs are either living or having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram.

The impact on social and moral values and norms of organ transplantation for the incarcerated population: There has been series of question arising on the social and moral value of organ transplantation for the incarcerated population. The tendency or disposition of this question is one of the most debatable issues whether expensive medical care should be given...

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...ndards and ethical Codes for correctional medical practitioners. According, to NCCHC standard, the service of an outside practitioner should be obtained.

Nevertheless, Puisis stated that this is an ethical principle that relates directly to the “primum non nocere” precept. In addition to this, is the use of the service of correctional medical practitioners in performing Urinalyses or blood test to detect the use of drug or alcohol, another instance is the performing of X-ray scan and the collection of DNA analysis. However these activities according to Puisis are unethical under the NCCHC’s standard because such processes are performed for forensic purposes. Although correctional medical practitioners may need the information of the result for medical purposes, so the ethical approach is the use of the services of an outside medical provider (Puisis, 2006, p.24).