Egg donation and medical ethics.

The Pain of Egg-Donation

Contemporary body practices providing an answer to the subjects’ demand for assisted reproduction procedures, question the subjective experience of pain. The psychoanalytic approach of pain introduces the dimension of the unconscious in bodily experiences. Clinical field work and psychoanalytic psychotherapy with an infertile woman after failed egg-donation in vitro fertilization cycles, allows...

Payment for egg donation and surrogacy.

This article examines the ethics of egg donation. It begins by looking at objections to noncommercial gamete donation, and then takes up criticism of commercial egg donation. After discussing arguments based on concern for offspring, inequality, commodification, exploitation of donors, and threats to the family, I conclude that some payment to donors is ethically acceptable. Donors should not b...

Ethics, organ donation and tax: a proposal.

Five arguments are presented in favour of the proposal that people who opt in as organ donors should receive a tax break. These arguments appeal to welfare, autonomy, fairness, distributive justice and self-ownership, respectively. Eight worries about the proposal are considered in this paper. These objections focus upon no-effect and counter-productiveness, the Titmuss concern about social mea...

The Ethics of Donation and Donor Protection

Ethics and living donation in renal transplantation

Nevertheless, the transplant community is dealing with organ scarcity in cadaveric transplantation, and potential receptors in Portugal spend an average of 5 years on the waiting list before receiving a kidney6. The following numbers illustrate this: in Portugal, in 2016, more than 7000 patients were on the waiting list for renal transplantation; only 513 patients were transplanted, 65 of whom ...