The Fundamental Perspective of Catholic Bioethics

Philosophy and Culture 30 (1):53-64 (2003)
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Biotechnology you off the future of mankind, when we have the opportunity to open the "book of life" to unlock the birth, old age, sickness and death of the mystery, they should understand life itself, in addition to the body, there are ethical and spiritual values. This article from the "life" and "genetically modified" two spindles cut, explore the ethics of life science to life the impact and influence. This article refers to "life", including euthanasia, abortion, reproduction technology, and stem cell research, this involves the right to life and survival, as the field of medical ethics. The "genetically modified" human genome project plan is referential, gene therapy, and issues such as genetically modified foods, means that interpretation of human life, thereby transforming life to create life, you may go beyond the nature of human life, destruction and even people on earth and the balance of nature is a very serious and must face the issue. Biotechnology is closely related to the future of mankind. While we have the opportunity to open the "book of life" and solve the riddles about birth, aging, sickness and death, we should bear in mind that life has spiritual ethics and values ​​beyond human flesh. This paper approaches the issue from the perspectives of "life-and-death studies" and "gene modification" to investigate the impact of biotechnology on bioethics. What the writer means by "life-and-death studies" includes euthanasia, abortion , cloning technology, and stem cell studies; involving the right to life and the right to live, these are the ethical issues of medicine. And "gene modification" refers to the human genome project, gene therapy and gene modified food. It seems to indicate that mankind may transcend the substance of human life and even destroy the earthly balance and the balance between Man and Nature when they are reading life, changing life and creating life. This is a serious topic that we have to deal with

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