The Child’s Body and Bone Marrow Transplantation: Introduction

Christina Schües; Christoph Rehmann-Sutter; Martina Jürgensen; Madeleine Herzog

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-04166-2_1

The Child’s Body and Bone Marrow Transplantation: Introduction

Christina Schües^*, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Martina Jürgensen, Madeleine Herzog

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Abstract

Questions concerning the ethical status of children, and their position and their relationships within families, have been widely debated in recent moral philosophy and biomedical ethics, as well as in pedagogic sciences and sociology. This volume is intended to contribute to these interdisciplinary debates from a very specific angle. Combining philosophical, ethical and qualitative empirical research, it focuses on a medical practice that brings out a particularly challenging and complex social and familial situation, thus illuminating family responsibilities and their conflicts, children’s dependency, the child’s body with all its meanings, and the specific roles of family members in a transformative situation. The practice concerned is the transplantation of bone marrow between siblings who are children at the time of transplant. These renewable haematopoietic stem cells, derived from the marrow of the hip bone, can serve as a medical therapy for the sick brother or sister.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Philosophy and Medicine
Number of pages	16
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Publication date	2022
Pages	3-18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04166-2_1
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Acknowledgment We are immensely grateful to the participants in this study for their readiness to share their experiences with us and with the readers of this book. The 82 interviews of the Lübeck study were professionally transcribed by Monika Pohl. The selected interview quotes were translated from German to English by Monica Buckland, who also revised the English of all the chapters written by non-native English speakers. Special thanks to Jackie Leach Scully for an inspiring talk at the workshop and for helpful questions during the revision of the manuscripts. We also thank two anonymous peer reviewers for reading and commenting on the manuscript, which helped us to further clarify the text. We thank Leonie Haberer and Marina Frisman for editorial assistance. Funding was provided by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (grant no. AZ.10.12.2.018) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, as part of the research programme “ELSA stem cell research” (grant 01GP1601).

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Research Area: Center for Cultural Studies (ZKFL)

DFG Research Classification Scheme

1.23-02 Empirical Social Research
1.18-02 Theoretical Philosophy
2.22-14 Hematology, Oncology
2.22-20 Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

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