Ethical Issues and Management Strategies for Human Organ Transplantation

Abstract

Organ transplantation technique is a great technological breakthrough in the domain of medical field. Organ transplantation brings benefit to human beings; however, the ethics problems mainly involve all of the factors in donor, recipient and medical faculty. This paper brings out some association ethics principles that should be followed in organ transplantation, such as inoffensive principle, benefit principle, just principle and independent principle. According to the condition of China, we have analyzed the ethics problems in organ transplantation: guarantee of the benefit of the donor, realization of recipient benefit and supervision of moral self-discipline. At last, the management strategies of organ transplantation are proposed. The government should enforce the relevant publicity and instruction in order to change people's idea and correct understanding of organ donation. Strengthen the legislative supervision to ensure that the benefits of the donor and the recipient are not infringed. The government should to establish professional medical institutions to care about the psychological and physiological health of donor and receptors after transplantation. Strengthen moral supervision to improve the moral self-discipline of medical staff, which aims to ensure good medical environment for patients with organ transplantation.