Ethics of fetal brain cell transplants

Fetal tissue transplants.

History and ethics of hand transplants

Hand transplantation is a form of composite tissue allotransplantation, whereby the hand of a cadaveric donor is transferred to the forearm of an amputee. The aim of such a procedure is to achieve better outcomes in terms of functionality and appearance when compared with prosthetics. The microsurgical techniques required have been well established for many years. In addition, advances in immun...

Fetal Tissue Transplants in Medicine

field. Thus, even with varying objectives by each author(s), such detailed analyses of knowledge about SLE provide a valuable resource for the clinician. Lahita's 1992 edition of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus provides an updated, though editorially inconsistent, consideration of the disease, suitable for clinicians and researchers alike. Even though much of its information may already have grown...

Ethics of Fetal Surgery

Surgeons sometimes operate on the developing fetuses in utero of pregnant women to treat a number of congential abnormalities, operations that have ethical aspects. A. William Liley performed the first successful fetal surgery, a blood transfusion, in New Zealand in 1963 to counteract the effects of hemolytic anemia [6], or Rh disease, on a fetus [7]. The ethical discussions surrounding fetal s...

Ethical issues in fetal tissue transplants.