FROM WOODEN LIMBS TO BIOMATERIAL ORGANS - THE ETHICS OF ORGAN REPLACEMENT AND ARTIFICIAL ORGANS

This paper discussed issues of ethical assessment and moral concern as sociated with organ replacement and physical enhancement: research, al location, organ donation, artificial organs, xenografts, biomaterials, and neuromaterials. While emphasizing the medical and moral benefits over associated risks, it calls for a better integration of moral asse ssment into technology assessment and for the establishment of a cross -cultural and interdisciplinary International Ethics Committee for Org an Replacement Therapy.