Abstract
This academic paper on Ethical issues of using umbilical cord blood stem
cell therapy of John Stuart Mill perspective aim to investigate the new
approaches in the treatment of diseases by using umbilical cord blood stem
cells. And also to study ethical issues from the use of umbilical cord blood stem
cells in the treatment of diseases considered by Mill’s utilitarianism. 21st
century, the medical industry was interested in organ transplantation from stem
cells especially stem cells from the umbilical cord to treat chronic and
degenerative organ diseases, blood cancer and organ transplantation which
successful and widespread throughout the world. Thailand has about 900 new
children with Leukemia every year. About 50 percent are leukemia which needs
to be treated correctly and urgently. In general Standardized chemotherapy but
if the cancer patient has a bad prognosis Or have recurrent cancer Patients need
to be treated with bone marrow transplants or stem cells to have a chance to
heal. According to Mill’s Utilitarianism, the ethical concepts that determine what
is the basic criterion used to determine whether it should or should not concern
with the popular benefit that the criterion used is the amount of happiness that
results from actions. Treating the disease using stem cells will make the patient
recover from the disease, healthier and happier in life. As Mill said "The
correctness of an action depends on the tendency that the action will lead to
happiness