Are Jehovah’s Witnesses competent to resolve the issue of blood transfusion?

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Are Jehovah’s Witnesses competent to resolve the issue of blood transfusion?

A small guidebook for the medical community and criticism of the Watchtower Society’s teachings

Gdańsk 2019

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Are Jehovah’s Witnesses competent to resolve the issue of blood transfusion?

Are Jehovah’s Witnesses competent to resolve the issue of blood transfusion?

Table of contents

• Introduction

• Vaccinations, vaccines

• Transplants

• Blood fractions

• Past beliefs on blood transfusion

• Development of procedures for dealing with blood transfusion

• Blood transfusion − determination in avoiding it by Jehovah’s Witnesses and their children, and methods of the Watchtower Society used to fight it

• Blood transfusion: consumption or transplantation?

• Jehovah’s Witnesses and “non-transfusion” hospitals

• The inconsequent position on the basic components of blood

• Jehovah’s Witnesses’ strange questions and doubts regarding blood

• Former unconventional methods of treatment offered by the Watchtower Society

• Final thoughts

• Information about the original Polish edition

• Appendix A Letters and documents of the Watchtower Society

• Appendix B Blood transfusions in the media

• Appendix C Jehovah’s Witnesses’ various opinions on health care

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Opracował: Piotr Andryszczak
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