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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 20:55:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ian A. York" <iayork@panix.com>
Subject: Doctor struck off

T. London doctor struck off for inveigling Turkish peasants to donate

a kidney.

         Making Human Life Captive to Biomedical Technology: Christianity
                and the Demise of Human Values

                by D. Gareth Jones, MB,BS, DSc

        Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Bioethics
        Research Centre, University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand

          Excerpts from the Eighth Annual Jack W. Provonsha Lecture 
                            Loma Linda University 
                                 March 4, 1995

Is it possible to discern a point at which technology becomes antithetical to Christian aspirations? Consider the following vignettes:

Harvesting Organs and Selling Kidneys

On April 5, 1990, after a 35-day hearing, the General Medical Council found a physician and two surgeons guilty of serious professional misconduct. Dr. Raymond Crockett, a physician in private practice in London's Harley Street and at the National Kidney Centre, was struck off the medical Register, and Mr. Michael Bewick and Mr. Michael Joyce had restrictions placed on their practice following their involvement in a kidney-for-sale scandal. The case concerned transplant operations with kidneys removed from Turkish donors, unrelated to the recipients, who had been brought to London and paid for their organs. ...