Überlegungen zur Organtransplantation

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Garzón Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Ethical Status ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Body Tissues

AbstractRecent advances in medical technology, not with standing their potential blessings, have engendered a number of new ethical problems. Questions raised by rapidly improving techniques for the transplantation of human organs and body tissues have become especially urgent. The article tries to clarify and evaluate the main arguments advanced for and against different arrangements in this area. The first part concentrates on the problem of acquisition. The ethical status of eight ways of obtaining human body parts is investigated. The cases are derived from combinations of three criteria: whether the donor consents or not; whether or not he/she is alive or dead at the time of extraction; and whether or not donors (or their heirs) are compensated. In the second part, the problem of adjudication is treated. Three possible arrangements are examined: market, organ bank, and club.

Mercury and Lead Content of Human Body Tissues from a Selected Population

1978 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Schmidt ◽  
Charles G. Wilber
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Mercury Content ◽  
Human Tissues ◽  
Sharp Drop ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Body Tissues ◽  
Atomic Absorption Technique ◽  
Autopsy Specimens ◽  
Kidney Liver ◽  
Absorption Technique

Organs from 40 cadavers, ranging in age from 1 to 90 years, were analyzed for lead and mercury using the atomic absorption technique. The results show no overall elevated trends in lead and mercury content of human tissues from persons in Northeastern Colorado, USA. The data, when compared with values obtained from autopsy specimens taken 60 years ago, suggest a sharp drop in mercury content of most human organs over that period of time. In general, lead in bone increases with age. Lead in kidney, liver, and muscle decreases with age. Mercury in bone is usually quite low. Mercury in kidney increases with age; in muscle it remains the same; in liver there is only a suggestion of increase with age.

scholarly journals “THIS IS MY KIDNEY, I CAN DO WHAT I WANT WITH IT” – PROPERTY RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP OF HUMAN ORGANS

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda Slabbert
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Organ Transplants ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Experimental Phase ◽  
Human Organs

If I am not a slave, nobody else owns me and I therefore must own myself. This is but philosophical speculation and not the law. According to the legal view, not only does no one own me or my body parts, but neither do I. Legal conceptions of “property” donot extend to self-ownership. A vacuum in law concerning the ownership of body parts exists and the only responses to questions concerning this type of ownership remain philosophical and obiter dicta in reported cases. This article explores property rights in human bodies and body parts in order to establish the position in law of excised human organs removed for the use in transplantation. It is necessary to highlight the historical progression in determining property rights in human body parts, but it should be borne in mind that the majority of laws and court decisions took place in an era when organ transplants were still in an experimental phase. For the sake of brevity foreign legislation and court judgments in only two common law countries will be scrutinised and compared to the current position in South Africa. The reasons why ownership in human organs are important will also be indicated. 

scholarly journals An Augmented Reality based Learning App

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 925-928
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Human Body ◽  
3D Model ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Augmented Reality Application ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Memory Power

There are so many different types of applications that deal with various sectors of augmented reality, that provides augmented facility for learning. But there is no particular augmented reality software that is designed to detail out information of the interior parts of the human body with its organs, thus we have initiated and designed an augmented reality application that shows all the information and 3D Models about the interior organs of the human body, we need to know about with the help of some special markers present physically in every iconic spot. This information displayed visually is dynamically maintained and also provides the Students with a 3D visual of the Human organs, where the students will be given an application with several pictures for visualizing the 3D model of the organs with its interior parts. This could greatly help the students to gain knowledge about body parts by using mobile phone and also this will help the students to increase their memory power by visualizing them.

Our Bodies, Whose Property?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, this book challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. The book explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic. The book asks what is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we commonly applaud? The book contends that body markets occupy the outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all labor markets. But it also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same world. Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, the book demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend.

Property in Human Body Parts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Pila
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Human Body ◽  
First Principles ◽  
The Political ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
The Law

This chapter surveys the current legal position concerning property in bodies and bodily materials. Of especial relevance in the current age of advanced genetic and other bio technologies, it looks beyond property in bodies and their materials ‘as such’ to consider also (a) the availability of rights of personal and intellectual property in objects incorporating or derived from them, and (b) the reliance on quasi-property rights of possession and consent to regulate the storage and use of corpses and detached bodily materials, including so-called ‘bio-specimens’. Reasoning from first principles, it highlights the practical and conceptual, as well as the political and philosophical, difficulties in this area, along with certain differences in the regulatory approach of European and US authorities. By way of conclusion, it proposes the law of authors’ and inventors’ rights as simultaneously offering a cautionary tale to those who would extend the reach of property even further than it extends currently and ideas for exploiting the malleability of the ‘property’ concept to manage the risks of extending it.

3D-printing human body parts

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 15-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Kirkpatrick
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Body Parts

The presence of food-derived collagen peptides in human body-structure and biological activity

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 4325-4330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Sato
Keyword(s):  
Biological Activity ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Body Structure ◽  
Collagen Peptides ◽  
Recent Advances

While it was difficult to detect food-derived peptide in blood (A), recent advances enables identify them (B) and examine their biological activities.

Polysemy of Words Expressing Human Body Parts of The Four Limb Area in Thai Language in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanh Ha Thi Mai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Thai Language ◽  
Unit Of Measurement ◽  
Semantic Transformation

The nomenclature and polysemiosis of body parts has constituted a central part of linguistics, and of Linguistic Anthropology. The ramifications of such work make inroads into our understandings of many fields, including language contact, semiotics, and so forth, This current paper identifies the structures and emerging denotations of expressions of human body parts (HBPs) in Thai language, and ways in which these dimensions reflect polysemy. The study thus applies the following methods: Field research methods of linguistics, description, comparison, and collation. As sources of data, this study surveys Thai rhymes, fairy tales, riddles and riddle songs, rhyming  stories, children’s songs and linguistic data of daily speeches in the  northwest of Vietnam. The paper uses theories on word meaning and the transformation of word meaning. To aid analysis, this paper applies methods of  analyzing meaning components so to construct significative meaning structures of words expressing HBPs in Thai language, thus identifying the semantemes chosen to be the basis for the transformation. In the polysemy of  words expressing HBPs of the four limbs, the polysemy of words expressing  the following parts were studied: khèn - tay, cánh tay (arm); mễ – tay, bàn  tay (hand); khà - đùi (thigh); tìn - chân, bàn chân (leg, foot). Directions of semantic transformation of words expressing HBPs in Thai language are as  diversified and as multi-leveled as Vietnamese. Furthermore, in Thai language, there occur differences in the four scopes of semantic transformation, as compared with Vietnamese, including “people’s characteristics,” “human activities,” “nomination of things with activities like HBPs’ activities,” and “unit of measurement.” This study contributes to Linguistic Anthropology by suggesting that the polysemy of words expressing HBPs of the four limb area in Thai language will outline a list of linguistic phenomena which serve as the basis to understand cultural and national features, in the light of perception and categorization of the reality of the Thai minority with reference to Vietnamese.

Ultrasonic intra-body communication using semi-guided waves through human body tissues

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. A31-A31
Author(s):  
John O. Gerguis ◽  
Mayukh Nath ◽  
Shreyas Sen
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Guided Waves ◽  
Body Tissues
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