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Grupo de Discusión de Bioseguridad, GEF 25/11/04
Rolf Immler
Ética
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ÉTICA (lat. ethicum)   Parte teórica de la
valoración moral de los actos humanos. (SIN.
Moral Conjunto de reglas de conducta
propuestas por una determinada doctrina o
inherentes a una determinada condición)   Conjunt
o de principios y normas morales que regulan las
actividades humanas.   Diccionario enciclopédico
Larousse 2002
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ÉTICA
El cometido específico de la ética es el estudio
de una dimensión particular dentro de la realidad
humana la referida a la actividad libre, o sea,
a la conducta responsable e imputable.
Responsabilidad e imputabilidad son conceptos
íntimamente conexos. La primera es una
característica propia del obrar humano, la
segunda, una calificación de las acciones
humanas consecuencia de la anterior.
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Hay solamente una ética?   Bioética La ética
para asuntos del área de la biología.
Genethics No es nada más que un juego de
palabras muy atractivo.
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La relevancia de los aspectos éticos
La relevancia de los aspectos éticos
habitualmente presentes en las decisiones
científicas es un hecho real de trascendencia en
el ámbito del ejercicio profesional. Hay que
recordar que la ética pertenece al conjunto
grande de ciencias catalogadas globalmente bajo
la denominación de "antropológicas", las que
tienen como sujeto de su análisis al hombre en
cuanto tal, con la diferencia de considerar cada
una de ellas con su propio método, un aspecto
diverso en dicho sujeto.
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Percepción?
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The field of bioethics emerged over thirty years
ago. It provides a practical language for
mediating between developments in science and
popular culture and a means for our society to
talk about its deepest moral concerns, fears and
hopes. This languageis employed to promote
scholarly and public understanding of the
ethical, legal, social and public policy
implications of advances in the life sciences
and medicine. It fosters informed dialogue about
these issues across a broad spectrum of
opinion --- so that not only are the right
questions addressed, but that the answers given
rest upon solid facts and cogent
arguments.   (Univ. of Pennsylvania, School of
Medicine, Dept. of Medical Ethics)
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Virtually everything good that you've heard
about biotechnology is true.It's making inroads
against killers such as cancer, heart disease,
and stroke. It's stopping other diseases for
which until recently the best treatment was an
aspirin. Biotech crops will provide malnourished
peoples with enough calories to turn them into
American-sized butterballs.But to many, biotech
has a dark side. They fear cloning humans to rip
out their organs as replacements, turning our
offspring into Uebermenschen, and distorting
the whole concept of what it is to be
human.   Michael Fumento (2004) Senior fellow at
the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC,author of
BioEvolution How Biotechnology Is Changing Our
World. (2003)
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No solamente los críticos son bioéticos!
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Leading bioethicists are currently expressing
serious reservations about long-term ethical and
social consequences of various research
initiatives in biotechnology.   If critics ..
focus on only worst-case scenarios and extreme
developments, important research might be
curtailed.   Generating public controversy by
focusing primarily on the dangers of .. risks
undermining research that might play an
important role in .. (resolving
problems).   Turner 2004
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Admittedly, we should recognize that
incremental scientific advances could
eventually lead to significant changes in human
experience. Furthermore, developments in
biomedical research are unpredictable. But
humans are capable of adapting to changing
circumstances.   Turner 2004
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Thoughtful ethical analysis of contemporary
biomedical (biotechnological) research ought to
avoid philosophical and rhetorical excesses. We
need more temperate discussion of current
developments in biotechnology.   We need more
temperate commentary on the potential ethical,
social and legal ramifications of
research.   We need more temperate commentary
from bioethicists we need to challenge the
hyperbole of utopian and dystopian thinkers and
examine more carefully the benefits and burdens
that interventions are likely to
generate.   Turner 2004
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  We are dealing less with an increasing
irrational hostility to technology than with a
decreasing (irrational too) faith in technology.
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What can ethics, or moral philosophy, contribute
here?   Philosophers disagree about the precise
scope, function and methodology of ethics, but
many (including myself) would argue that ethics
cannot provide conclusive answers or proof about
what is right or wrong to do in particular
situations.   The role of ethics is rather to
analyze and clarify our everyday moral beliefs
and intuitions, turning a critical spotlight upon
them by asking the two simple-sounding questions
which have lain at the heart of philosophy since
Socrates   What do you mean?  
How do you know?
Dr. Roger Straughan (1995) Reader in Education,
University of Reading, UK
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Los tres criterios para el manejo razonable de la
biotecnología
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Por su atención Gracias!
Dr. Rolf M. Immler