Animal organs for human transplant.

Three programmes from a series in which a regular panel chaired by Michael Buerk considers some of the problems likely to emerge from current developments in medical science. The panel members are:- John Browning (Editor, "Wired" magazine); Susan Greenfield (Prof. of Pharmacology, Oxford University); Sheila MacLean (Prof. of Law and Ethics in Medicine, Glasgow University); Rosalind Miles (psychologist and sociologist) and Peter Stanford (Catholic journalist). Michael Marshall (author) creates dramatic scenarios of future events relevant to the subject under discussion. Animal organs for human transplant. Are we in danger of saving our lives at the expense of our humanity? The panel debates the issues surrounding the potential use of animal organs for human transplants, including whether our body organs are essential to our human nature, whether we are justified in using animals for this purpose, and what would be the danger of viral infections passing from animal to man.