2025/09/01 by Jasmine Gunkel, Franklin G. Miller · 1 voice
Medicine · Neuroscience · #Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research #Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations #Xenotransplantation and immune response
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/hast.5021
openalex publication_date 2025/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Xenotransplantation is increasingly touted as the solution to the organ crisis. Some bioethicists, however, have raised concerns about xenotransplantation's implications for health justice and animal welfare. We develop and sharpen these worries, and we explore how they might be mitigated. We compare xenotransplantation with several alternatives for addressing the organ crisis, including directing more money toward public health interventions, and argue that these alternatives are ethically preferable. In light of this, we argue that xenotransplantation is not a justifiable method of addressing the organ crisis. Societal funds and attention ought instead be directed toward more efficient and ethically superior solutions.