ETHICAL ISSUES

Ethical Issues in Testing Human Genetic Disorders



Introduction

Since Hippocrates, the ethics of medical practice is based on six ethical principles which include preserving life, relieving suffering, not hurt, telling the truth to the patient, respecting patient autonomy, and treating patients with justice. These principles can be summarized into three basic terms of ethics which are beneficence, autonomy and justice.

According to the principle of justice in medical technology, an action is unethical if not equal, i.e. if it is available for those who need it. Ensuring equal opportunities for all citizens without any discrimination and prevent economic interference are fundamental ethical issues in access to effective medical technologies.

Discussion

Genetic technologies in the late 20th and early 21st century have become part of medical practice. Humanity is looking forward to genetics, which, using their discoveries can change the fate of contemporaries and posterity, giving them a better predestination. Genetic diagnosis and counseling have become one of the types of medical care.

In the area of modern genetic technology is dominated by a tendency to develop technologies to design, modify the biological nature of man. In particular, it deals with the technology of genetic modification of organisms, testing genetic human disorders, gene therapy and cloning. In the course of scientific development and application of testing genetic human disorders revealed a number of serious ethical problems associated with intervention in a variety of mechanisms to preserve life on Earth. Currently in the development and use of gene technology such as testing genetic human disorders, there are some problems that cause ethical concerns.

The ethical problems in the use of gene technology to improve human nature and in testing human genetic disorders include the problem of access of different segments of the population to the possibility of their use, the problem of population genetic ...