A Christian Attitude Toward Organ Transplantation and Willing Our Bodies for Scientific Research

Although to the best of my knowledge the first human whole organ transplant was performed over thirty years ago, it is only in the last decade, in particular in the last half decade, that tremendous advances have been made in this field of medical endeavor. We have been reading about kidney transplants for so long that it has become, in a sense, “old hat.” When the first human heart transplant was performed a few years ago, however, this rather bold maneuver caused no little commotion in the...