Medical Ethics 4: Transplants and Transfusions

This comprehensive lesson exploring the facts, benefits and religious responses to organ transplants and blood transfusions will need trimming to fit in one hour. There are plenty of case studies, youtube clips, embedded short videos about ‘cellular memory’, and comparative religious arguments from the six major religions. Activities are differentiated by outcome, with discussion or learning pyramid plenaries available. Went all out on this one.
Learning Objectives:
To know the possible benefits about organ transplants.
To know some religious attitudes to blood transfusions and organ transplants.
To evaluate and compare religious attitudes to medical ethics.
It also includes a particularly close look at Jehovah’s witnesses opinions on blood transfusions.