Ethical and Epistemological Status of a Dead Body in the Context of Development of Tissue and Organ Donation

Occupation: Leading Researcher, Head of the Department of Humanitarian Expertise and Bioethics
Affiliation: RAS Institute of Philosophy
Address: 12/1 Goncharnaya Str., Moscow 109240, Russian Federation

Journal name

Chelovek

Edition

Volume 34 Issue 5

Pages

29-52

Abstract

In the article, on the example of the development of human organ and tissue donation, the ethical and related epistemological status of a dead body is considered. Important factors in their formation are socio-cultural and religious traditions, worldview prerequisites, as well as family attitudes and ideas about private life. Based on these factors, moral conflicts were considered that arise in the process of developing new liberal forms of organ donation and organ transplantation, based on a resource approach to the dead body and demonstrating the existing tension between understanding the (dead) body as a common good and the idea of the body as a private thing. It is shown that in the process of developing the practice of organ and tissue donation, the ethical and epistemological status of a dead human body is problematized in the existing system of value dichotomies — between commodifiable and non-commodifiable, public and private, autonomous and instrumentalized relationship to the human body.

Keywords

ethics of dying, dead body, donation, organ transplantation, controlled donation, donation after euthanasia, gestational donation

Received

21.11.2023

Publication date

23.11.2023

Number of characters

50558

Cite

GOST	Popova O. Ethical and Epistemological Status of a Dead Body in the Context of Development of Tissue and Organ Donation // Chelovek – 2023. – V. 34. – Issue 5 C. 29-52 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://chelovek-journal.ru/S023620070028501-8-1 (circulation date: 05.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S023620070028501-8
MLA	Popova, Olga V "Ethical and Epistemological Status of a Dead Body in the Context of Development of Tissue and Organ Donation." Chelovek 34.5 (2023):29-52. DOI: 10.31857/S023620070028501-8
APA	Popova O. (2023). Ethical and Epistemological Status of a Dead Body in the Context of Development of Tissue and Organ Donation. Chelovek 34(5), pp.29-52 DOI: 10.31857/S023620070028501-8

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