Ethics Case Study -- Roche Term Paper

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However, if it were the case that the Chinese legal system protected the innocent and executed only those criminals who have been properly, duly, and fairly convicted and sentenced for crimes appropriately punished by execution, it is much harder to argue against the use of their organs to benefit society. From an objective point-of-view, once a person dies, it is wasteful not to use his or her organs to benefit living people. The attachment we have to the body after death is primarily a function of social learning and nonsensical superstition in the first place. Logically, it would be ethically permissible, to require that organs be harvested from all deceased persons once their families have had the opportunity to pay their respects.


The ethical problem in this case is much more about the way that Chinese citizens become prisoners in the first place and the way that the decision to execute prisoners is made. However, if one were to hypothesize a just criminal justice system, the restriction of capital punishment to situations that warrant it objectively, and appropriate safeguards for preventing wrongful conviction, it would be ethical to continue clinical trials in China. However, given the available facts, it is not ethical to do so......

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