Argumentative essay for organ transplantation
Organ transplantation is the donating of one’s organ to another human being for replacing his or her damaged organ (County 2). This procedure has been proven to be successful in children and young adults and the elderly with comorbidities (Grinyó 1). This can prove to be life-saving for patients with terminal organ failures and painful therapies for survival (Grinyó 1). Over the last 60 years, the organ transplantation process has been growing with numerous cases, while the introduction of cyclosporine, thirty years before, improved the transplantation procedure (Grinyó 2). It was identified that the heart, kidneys, lungs, uterus, lungs, pancreas, intestine, and thymus, can be transplanted successfully (Grinyó 2). The United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) established by the US congress in 1984 focuses on the policies and legal frameworks of organ transplantation. At the same time, the Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO) are the non-profit organizations that are responsible for acquiring and disseminating the organs (Staff 22). The successes of organ transplantation, combined with very few drawbacks, means that organ transplantation is a positive medical procedure that should be widely utilized.
Organ transplants has been a life-saving technique since the first organ transplant was conducted, consisting of three successful renal transplants done by Murray and Merrill, the first of which was done on identical twins, where the transplant functioning was obtained (Starzl, 5). While the first successful kidney transplant was done on a dog by Emerich Ullmann (Barker and Markmann 73). After much research and consideration, a 3-step strategy was devised, weakening the recipient’s immune system, infusing the donor bone marrow, and then the organ transplantation is done (Starzl 6). Immunosuppression drugs were introduced to prevent organ rejection in the recipient (Starzl 5). By the 1920s, the Rockefeller Institute introduced the tenets of the transplantation immunology, also emphasizing the importance of it.
Organ transplants today save thousands of lives every year. The Global Observatory on Donation...
Organ transplantation is very significant as a single donor can hugely impact the life of the other people, saving up to eight lives (County 3). Organ transplantation also improves the quality of life by improving the life expectancy of the recipients (Grinyó 5). So it not only saves a life but ameliorates the quality of life in cases of donating eyes or tissues, relieving off the pain of those people and gifting them with an ability they were deprived of (County 2). It fulfills the lives of people who are dependent on poignant procedures for survival, giving...…so they can be easily trapped in getting the kidney from them while in some cases, poor people are promised amounts of money for their kidney which is not given to them after the procedure gets completed (Resnick 2). There are many instances of the exploitation that occurs at all levels in the organ transplantation case.
Organ transplantation has been one of the successful and miraculous phenomena, making the transferring of one human’s organ to another possible through numerous discoveries and experimentation. The advancement of the medical field has made possible for the survival of humans with major organ damages or failures, improving their quality of life. Organ transplantation prolongs and improves the lives of the people with critical organ conditions and is considered ethically and morally right, relieving the suffering of another fellow being and giving them what they require to survive. However, there have been arguments against the organ transplantation, arising due to failed instances and commoditizing of the organs happening around the world, mostly affecting the poorer population. Even the ethical counter-arguments have been given that focuses on the self-harm theory whereby in today’s generation intake of drugs and other self-harming activities is mostly prevalent which dilutes the argument of a charitable act by the donor, and the recipient brought this fate onto himself or herself through indulging…
