Abstract
The scientific advances in genomics open the door to human fears. For this reason, the Human Genome Project, HGP, has been the first great international research project that has had as subproject the associated Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI). This bioethical worry arose as answer to the ethical and social questions that appearing in relation to the genomic advances. Genomics is shown as the key that will reveal the mystery of being (Aldine's lamp) or as tool of ecological destruction, as genetic determinism, as eugenic, that is to say, as Pandora's box. The HGP possesses an incalculable value for the diagnosis of new diseases, new medicines and new therapies, but it also brings some risks and fears that must be studied and analyze from a larger perspective than the scientific-technical, that is to say, as bioethical reflection genomics.
Highlights
The scientific advances in genomics open the door to human fears
Vamos a recorrer la historia del Projeto Genoma Humano (PGH) y del ELSI, deteniéndonos luego en puntos tales como la genetización y el maniqueísmo genético, pues la genética se presta para una suerte de mística de la ciencia, del conocimiento y, por tanto, divide las aguas entre quienes son partidarios fervientes de la genómica y quienes están en la vereda opuesta, es decir, es un campo típico para producir la diabolización, digamos la separación en dos actitudes contrarias
Hoy somos más sensibles a la caída de Icaro que al vuelo de Dédalo, nuestros escenarios son más bien negativos respecto del progreso de la humanidad en alas de la ciencia y de la técnica, aunque quizá haya sido siempre así, porque el mal tiene mayor peso ontológico, más presencia en la experiencia humana y mucha más riqueza imaginaria que el bien
Summary
The scientific advances in genomics open the door to human fears. For this reason, the Human Genome Project, HGP, has been the first great international research project that has had as subproject the associated Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI).
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