Exceptional Reception of Transplantation. How the Discussion about the Ethics of Transplantation Can Alter Our Cultural Order Cover Image

Nadzwyczajna recepcja transplantacji. Jak dyskusja o etyce przeszczepów może zmienić nasz porządek kulturowy
Exceptional Reception of Transplantation. How the Discussion about the Ethics of Transplantation Can Alter Our Cultural Order

Author(s): Anna Zalewska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: transplantologia; kanibalizm; antropofagia; religia; etyka; śmierć

Summary/Abstract: The article analises structural dependences between transplantology and canibalism and what this comparision can induce in our culture. If there are some dependeces between those two phenomenons, what it can cheange in our system of values. The last part of the article is analysing the exclusion of death in European culture. Because of this exclusion comarision of transplantology and canibalism is so cotroversial for us. That’s why the article tries to find a new ethical axis of the reception of transplatnation.

  • Issue Year: 13/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 81-95
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish