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Not quite "into". The pig kidney was attached outside the body via two large blood vessels, on an unresponsive organ donor who was going off life support. Thi

• HPsquared 5y ago
  I wonder how much of the difficulty was in performing the transplant itself, and how much was in justifying the procedure (i.e. working out the ethics). There must be a lot of experimental procedures ruled out on ethical grounds because they are untested and therefore are too dangerous to be tested. How common is this type of Catch-22 situation, and how is the deadlock typically broken?
  • egeozcan 5y ago
    > how is the deadlock typically broken A war breaks out and human life becomes less important, or someone/some government does it in secret, or there is something potentially catastrophic that allows some rules to loosen up a bit (like a pandemic).
  • BurningFrog 5y ago
    I've come to think the modern medical "ethics" and "Ethicist" are a huge problem. That gatekeeping kills a lot of people.
    • Ginden 5y ago
      In Poland, any major medical study on living patients must be approved by bioethics commission of local medical self-government. Somehow, almost all of them have Catholic priest as member. He studied ethics on Catholic university, so he is "qualified".
      • BurningFrog 5y ago
        It does seem that "ethicist" is a reinvention of the priest concept for a secular community.