Naslov
Moral-Bioethical Evaluation of Contemporary Biomedical Progress

Autori
Vuletić, Suzana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
9. ISCB konferencija "Globalna i dubinska bioetika - Od nove medicinske etike do integrativne bioetike" : u spomen na prof.dr. Ivana Šegotu : knjiga sažetaja = 9. ISCB Conference "Global and Deep Bioethics - From New Medical Ethics to the Integrative Bioethics" : in memory of prof. dr. Ivan Šegota : abstracts / Pelčić, Gordana ; Pelčić, Goran - Rijeka : Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Katedra za društvene i humanističke znanosti u medicini, 2012, 52-54

ISBN
978-953-6384-91-4

Skup
ISCB konferencija "Globalna i dubinska bioetika - Od nove medicinske etike do integrativne bioetike" : u spomen na prof.dr. Ivana Šegotu (9 ; 2012)

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 23.09.2012. - 25.09.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
moral; bioethics; medical ethics; biomedical progress; biotechnology

Sažetak
Modern progressive biomedical achievements, have substantially raised the quality of living, satisfaction, security and health of people. Due to those improvements, medicine has prominent and respectable role in a life of contemporary humans. However, today biomedicine is neglecting traditional orientation which was primarily oriented at the help and the cure of the human life in the moments of his great desperateness of suffering and pain. Instead, its' goal became to seize a complete domain control of human life, using its scientific progress of genetically programming and biotechnological sustainability. The term of progress in the context of biomedical sciences is offering very pervasive and successful resources, such as opportunity to control the human birth and dying, as well as the possibilities of constant monitoring and intervening in the life in all developmental stages, what brings into the question the accuracy of determination of all the moments of physical life: its beginning, evolution growth and its end. Due to scientific-technological integration of biomedical sciences, it became possible to control a human being through all life stages: its beginning, development and dying, giving opportunities for potential scientific research manipulations, with the idea of achieving a “myth of medical immortality”. We are singling out some of the usual questionable and “slippery slope” interventions of contemporary medicine and theirs moral-bio- ethical orientation in those areas: - Area of human sexuality: procreation is deprived from its original need for: marriage bound (by the open alternative life styles, same-sex unions, surrogate motherhood…) ; responsible parenthood (by sterilization, contraception), need for the other (by medical assisted procreation, cloning...). There is also a quite wide option of variety contraceptive selection (interceptive, contragestatives, abortives). - Genetically area: is commonly presented with numerous questionable interventions by the genetically engineering, nsight in genome map, modification of genetically information, genetic therapy, genotypic selection, „therapeutically“ and reproductive cloning, eugenic improvement, upgrading and altering the natural hereditary properties, as well as by their genetic profile, propagating an ideology according to the model of genetic determinism which lead to genetic discrimination. - Area of embryonic stage: is compromised by today's undefined status of already conceived child through theories of progressive humanization and other biological reductionism, jeopardizing the question of legal/anthropological and ontological status of human embryo. Questionable are also moral- ethical experiments on embryos such as researches on their stem cells as well as technique of freezing/crioconserving. Problematic are also many possible interventions of prenatal diagnostics and selection (with different therapeutically, exploring and altering scopes), or possibility of the “medical” request of imposed abortion of contemporary eugenic modes. - Area of human developmental stage: is marked by the life valuation according to the criteria’s of clinical quality and economical equation of sanitary management, ruled by the cost-benefit logic of health investment. The human life is subordinated to the different unfounded experiment of research curiosity and pre/clinical trials which are often contradict with the compliance of human dignity. Big bioethical problem is connected with the human organ trading, altering use of cyber biomedicine, medical assemblers and other artificial organs and experimental nanotechnology. - Terminal life stage: is signified by the control and hyper-dose of analgesic suppression of the pain ; therapeutically persistence (question of un/proportional measures), palliative treatment, death establishment, organ transplantation, euthanasia, dysthanasia, patient self- determination act, biological will of anticipated and self-determinate death. Applications of mentioned biotechnological progress on the field of biomedicine, have raised many hope excitements and showed astonishing efficiency, but also induced many new bioethical fears of those interventions within the human life, as we heard the prophetic warning of prof. Šegota, already many years ago. All those enumerated achievements are in the same time fascinating and frightening, and they require warnings regarding their limitations, especially if the contemporary achievements are crossing the border and going beyond the basic values which has to be respected by the promoting and defending every human life. And that is exactly the moral assignment of integrative bioethics! In symbiosis of components of the term: bios (life) and ethos (ethic, moral), bioethics is a guide of moral thinking about life and all of his factors. The definition of bioethics is: “interdisciplinary science, which dispose the human behavior on the fields of life and health, in the light of moral, rational values and principles, as also of theirs legal and social norming”. Only in this integrative bioethical unification, we can co-create a consciousness inspired by an absolute value of human life and to maintain her traditional understanding as an “ars sacra”.

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Engleski

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