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The Rights of Science After Death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Paul - Julien Doll

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It is with fear that one approaches anything closely or distantly related to the idea of death and the dissection of a body which has held life. To some, giving one's body or an organ is a “taboo” subject. And yet numerous transplants can only be conceived of by starting from a corpse from which one removes the liver, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, etc… It is thus, for example, that between 15th March 1963 and 15th March 1965, 196 kidney transplants were registered in the world, taken from corpses, with 35.7% of successes.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 19 , Issue 75 , September 1971 , pp. 122 - 141
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)