Contemporary Issues and Ethics in Healthcare

Contemporary Issues and Ethics in Healthcare
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Contemporary Issues and Ethics in Healthcare
Part 1: Contemporary Ethics
I disagree with Lengauer's analogy of treating valuable cells like oil. Notably, when an individual finds oil on another person's property, the owner can claim it until they reach a mutual agreement (Cotrau et al., 2019). Similarly, biological material belongs to a person until they fully decide to donate it upon consent. In addition, the cell donation process should fulfill all the legal requirements before making the ownership claims. One of these legal requirements is issuing a consent form to the donor. Besides, the donor should be notified about all the processes and uses of the donated organ or cells. Upon fulfilling all legal requirements, the receiving party can claim ownership upon partially compensating the donor. Therefore, I refute Lengauer's analogy, which likens cells to oil in that when one finds oil in someone's property, it automatically belongs to them.
The laws, statutes, and acts would prohibit deceased organ or cell donation. Notably, deceased donation may comprise cell, tissue, or organ transfer from one person to another before the death of the body parts (Cotrau et al., 2019). However, this donation method does not entail the process of informed consent. Besides, the donor may not be aware of the entire process that their cell transfer would undergo. These scenarios do not fulfill the current laws. Therefore, laws, statutes, and acts would now prohibit deceased donation.
Biospecimen laws and ethics are under the National Organ Transplant Act, which controls organ transplant's legal and ethical aspects. Lengauer's views go against biospecimen ethics and laws (Cotrau et al., 2019). According to this law, the donor should receive informed consent before surgical activities. Besides, the biospecimen policies protect the privacy of the contributors, and no party automatically owns their body cells. At the same time, biospecimen laws require the receiving party to disclose the use of the biospecimen to the contributor. Overall, Lengauer's views do not fulfill all these requirements.
Part 2: Contemporary Perspectives
According to Lantos (2016), in "the part of the Pantomime," says that despite informed consent being noble, it remains problematic in practice. I agree wi...