Artificial Heart Devices

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include only the beneficial possibilities.
There exist moral, ethical, and economic factors that accompany these new
innovations to humanity. Who will receive these brilliant inventions?
Obviously not all of the patients will get transplants, so selection criteria
must be established. The high price of artificial heart devices and their
implantation will eliminate some candidates. Unfortunately, this is not fair.
The rich, in essence, can buy life, whereas the poor are abandoned to die in a
diseased state. A thorough analysis of the implications of the implantation of
such devices reveals not only selection and economic consideration, but
mortality and ethics as well. Many contest that it is simply wrong to tamper
with the ways and creations of nature. By prolonging life through unnatural
means were are defeating natures foremost tenet of the "survival of the
fittest." We are preserving the weaker gene pools and contributing to the
deterioration of the human species. These ...

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which have allowed the LAVD to function without
problems for well over a year in a patient's body. The LAVD has been implanted
in more than seven hundred people for up to seventeen months, as they have
awaited human heart transplants(Stipp 38). It is difficult to fathom the great
scientific ingenuity that was required to develop these devices. However, we
must not be blinded from seeing the whole picture. In assuming its role as a
boost to humanity, these inventions bring many concerns. The issue of
selecting patients for implantation is an important one. There are three
alternatives for selecting patients who should have priority to receive
artificial heart devices. The first ...

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