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Dystopias are commonly found in science fiction novels and stories. Please see the article dystopia for discussion of definition. Note that the definition of dystopia is not agreed by everyone, but it is usually considered to mean something much more specific than a nightmare world or unpleasant future. Entries should only be added to this ...
Organ trade means treating human organs as a product, and trading with them, usually to make a profit. In many cases, the traded organs are used for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national ...
Prosthetics, the artificial replacement of organic limbs or organs, often play a role in fiction, particularly science fiction, as either plot points or to give a character a beyond normal appearance. Numerous works of literature, television, and films feature characters who have prosthetics attached. Prosthetics are used, in a narrative sense ...
Speculative fiction in technology of reproduction may involve cloning and ectogenesis, i.e., artificial reproduction). The latter part of the 2000s decade has also seen an upswing of films and other fiction depicting emotional struggles of assisted reproductive technology in contemporary reality rather than being speculation.
The first organ transplant in Japan took place at Niigata University in 1956 when a kidney was temporarily transplanted to a patient with acute renal failure. [4] In 1964 a permanent and full-scale kidney transplant was successfully undertaken at the University of Tokyo, and by 1992 nearly 9,000 kidney transplants had taken place. [5]
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Between 2008 and 2013, more than 2,000 transplants were recorded in Tamil Nadu, the highest in the country at the time. [23] From 2018 to 2016, the state transplanted 4,938 organs from 887 donors. [6] By 2019, this number went up to 7,783 organs. [19]
