Abstract

CAMARGO RUBIO, Rubén Darío. Ethical Argumentation in Living and Healthy Donor Kidney Donation. Self-determination, Will and Generosity Outweigh the Risks. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.1, pp.11-25.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.5555.

the altruistic gesture of the healthy living kidney donor, genetically or sentimentally related, is based on self-determination, willingness, and generosity. The ethical argumentation around living and healthy kidney donation is guided by principled and personalistic ethics, human dignity, corporeality, divisibility of the body, the lesser evil, and the greater evil. It is part of the right to ample and sufficient information that the donor receives about the procedure’s risks and possible physical and moral complications through the bioethics committee and the transplant group. Based on the ethical argumentation raised, we proceeded to answer the question of this research: should a living and healthy person be subjected to a surgery that will leave him/her mononephric for life, just because of the desire to help another, even though there are active programs with a cadaveric donor? This article aims to provide an ethical argumentation on living and healthy donor kidney donation that will contribute to an adequate orientation of their decision.

Keywords : living kidney donor; renal transplantation; ethical principles; medical ethics committees.

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