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KMID : 1025620190220010020
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Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
2019 Volume.22 No. 1 p.20 ~ p.33
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An Normative Analysis and Evaluation on the Repulsion of Cephalosomatic Anastomosis
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Choi Sin-U
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Abstract
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The cephalosomatic anastomosis proposed is a procedure to implant the body of a brain dead person to the living head. This may cause a serious reluctance for many people regardless of whether it is successful or useful. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether people's rejection of cephalosomatic anastomosis is justified enough to affect bioethics policy. Proponents of cephalosomatic anastomosis are worrying about technical incompleteness and social problems. However, the grounds for rejection by proponents can be solved with the development of medical technology and social institutions. Opponents of cephalosomatic anastomosis think the standard for human identity is the body as a whole. Thus, separation of the head and torso is a matter of existence and value, since the subject no longer remains the same self after surgery. Opponents' reluctance means the feeling of avoiding the disappearance of the subject. However, I oppose opponents’ view that changing a person's personality to another person through surgery reduces or eliminates his value. Many thought experiments conducted by the mass media consistently show that people feel bad emotions not by a fusion or fission themselves, but when new persons born of fusion and fission becomes morally evil. Therefore, I argue that although cephalosomatic anastomosis might create a new personality by combining different heads and bodies, this is not morally wrong unless the person will not become morally evil.
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KEYWORD
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alosomatic anastomosis, repulsion, safety, distributive justice, human identity
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