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The Genome Project and Pandora`s Box -The Light and Dark of Genetic Research-
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- Issue Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 철학사상연구소
- Citation
- 철학사상, Vol.18, pp. 1-27
- Keywords
- genetic determinism ; human dignity ; right not to know
- Abstract
- In this article, while summarizing all the main
problems involved in recent results of genetic science, I would
first like to look into the topics that have social-ethical
meanings. Then, as recent public interest and professional
discussion have made implicit, I'll address questions of genetic
determinism or reductive essentialism and focus on the
complexity of the genes as an open system together with
various other environmental factors. Furthermore values such as
the sanctity of life and human dignity that have been the main
supporting pillars in the ethical discussion about the negative
aspects of genetic research, are not very clear ideas themselves
in meaning and they will need to be relatively balanced with
other values too. Then I'll focus on the very present desperate
problem, which is that because of the gap in development
between the genetic diagnosis and the genetic treatment, we can
not help requesting the right not to know as well as the right
to know about our own genetic information.
- ISSN
- 1226-7007
- Language
- English
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