Why I hate stem-cell technologies & Regenerative Therapies - 5 views

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  #1 Satveer on 21 Oct 09

   

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8314442.stm
  
  This article is another one of those regenerative therapies article that use of stem-cell technology to reverse aging because first world countries are suffering the "problem" of ageing populations and that comes with a whole list of health problems which leaves states the burden of an aging populations taking a toll on health care.
  
  I have major contention with the whole issue of stem cell technologies and regenerative therapies for the aged, for smokers who require transplant because of their carefree consumption of cigarettes in their early lives and the excessive investment in these research areas for scientist to grow parts of bodies for first world individuals with access to have the ability to replace their parts and live longer. Is it really ethical for us to be investing millions of dollars creating such technologies for individuals that suffer the diseases of having too much worldly excesses as oppose to feeding the 1 billion people starving in the world today? How ethical is this to replace the lung of an avid smoker as oppose to feeding a polio stricken starving child in the arid lands of Africa? Is is just to replace the kidney of an obese diabetic American as oppose to providing basic healthcare in the rural towns of India or China that are still suffering the disease of poverty like malaria, polio, tuberculosis and cholera? Have we got our investments and priorities put in all the wrong places? I know this is a very strong statement to make put it presents the analogy that supports my ideology aptly... I would really consider investing thousands of dollars in getting my excessive eating diabetic and cholesterol stricken grandmother cured as opposed to curing many third world diseases with that money. However, I agree that this is not as easy it sounds but it seems to me...we have a huge ethical dilemma here.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8314442.stm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8314442.stm</a> <br /> <br /> This article is another one of those regenerative therapies article that use of stem-cell technology to reverse aging because first world countries are suffering the "problem" of ageing populations and that comes with a whole list of health problems which leaves states the burden of an aging populations taking a toll on health care. <br /> <br /> I have major contention with the whole issue of stem cell technologies and regenerative therapies for the aged, for smokers who require transplant because of their carefree consumption of cigarettes in their early lives and the excessive investment in these research areas for scientist to grow parts of bodies for first world individuals with access to have the ability to replace their parts and live longer. Is it really ethical for us to be investing millions of dollars creating such technologies for individuals that suffer the diseases of having too much worldly excesses as oppose to feeding the 1 billion people starving in the world today? How ethical is this to replace the lung of an avid smoker as oppose to feeding a polio stricken starving child in the arid lands of Africa? Is is just to replace the kidney of an obese diabetic American as oppose to providing basic healthcare in the rural towns of India or China that are still suffering the disease of poverty like malaria, polio, tuberculosis and cholera? Have we got our investments and priorities put in all the wrong places? I know this is a very strong statement to make put it presents the analogy that supports my ideology aptly... I would really consider investing thousands of dollars in getting my excessive eating diabetic and cholesterol stricken grandmother cured as opposed to curing many third world diseases with that money. However, I agree that this is not as easy it sounds but it seems to me...we have a huge ethical dilemma here.</div>

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