Human Tissue Inc' Part II

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Human Tissue Inc. Part II

• Chia-Hui Yeh
• Jantien Vroegop
• Ron Schormans
• Sammie Wintermans
• Joost Velterop

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At first

• Main Targets
• Ethical aspects
• Assignments
• Visualizing TE applications
• Assessing ethical concerns by playing the role of
  an appointed commission

• Main Targets
• Human skin
• TE skin
• - Internal survey

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Assignment I make the abstract ideas concrete

• Human Tissue Inc.
• Grow your way to the future/ 2005-Product Line
• SkinCoat
• ImprovedEye
• Hard Tissue Department
• LiverCo.
• ReBrain

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Examples in more detail

• TE-Skin

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• TE-Eye

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• TE-liver

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• TE-bones

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• TE-brains

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Assignment II- Assessing the ethical concerns
Inform / Interview
Final Report
Feedbacks
National Debate
Regulations/Policies
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Final Report

• Introduction
• Theoretical background
• Study design
• Interview structure and reasoning
• Examples in more detail
• Results
• Conclusion
• Discussion and Recommendations

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Introduction

• Our goal
• To increase public awareness and knowledge on the
  commercial use of TE, allowing possibilities for
  debate and opinion formation and reporting on the
  result.

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Theoretical background

• History of Tissue Engineering
• Ethical aspects of Tissue Engineering
• Misuse of Tissue Engineering?
• The responsibilities of Tissue Engineers
• The role of the commission
• The tasks of the commission

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Interview Structure and Reasoning

• Why an interview?
• The way of asking the questions
• The possible arguments the people could have

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Results

• Average knowledge of Tissue Engineering
• Unfamilar with the terminology
• The applications
• Appreciate all the medical applications
• Question the cosmetic purposes
• Welcome the TE-food with concerns
• Relatively neutral towards TE-furniture
• Disapprove ReBrain

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Conclusion

• Most people only want Tissue Engineering for
  medical purposes
• People often know some examples but dont
  assiociate them with Tissue Engineering

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Discussion

• The importance of public knowledge
• Different attitudes towards different
  applications
• The controversial point topics for debate
• Limitation of this study

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Recommendations

• To further improve the investigations
• More subjects
• Throughout the country
• Focus on daily applications first, then introduce
  the applications incrementally
• Brochure to clarify the misunderstanding of TE
• More communications with the public

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Thank you for your attention

• Are there any questions?