Idea of progress: what are the promises and perils of biotechnology?
Dissertation : Idea of progress: what are the promises and perils of biotechnology?. Recherche parmi 300 000+ dissertationsPar lucilejcq • 5 Mai 2017 • Dissertation • 456 Mots (2 Pages) • 1 375 Vues
The notion i am going to présent is « Idea of progress »
Today, scientific advancements are controlled by reflection and laws on bioethics; Science is rather free, it could in the near future to help save even more lives, it is necessary for the progress of man and is beneficial in many cases as in the fight against serious genetic diseases but this notion involves reflecting on life. It raises questions about what is positive or negative in the progress of science, because unfortunately the progress also involves risks such as the clonnage we can ask ourselves what are the promises and perils of biotechnology?
In the experiments I've seen, there are some that I found interesting while there are some that I found shocking.
The cloning experiment on Dolly's an experience that I found interesting and shocking at the same time interesting because this experience has allowed to develop new ways to produce drugs but also shocking because we can not imagine a world and we all have a clone, in which we are all a clone of the same person.
I found the experience of Elisabeth very interrresting, insofar, have a little brother was saving her live and this experience to a reasonable ethical to rescue the live of a little girl .. more than his little brother is loved for what he is, not just for saving Elizabeth.
With the progress there in many experiments such as this made in the laboratory that can create or save lives, in fact a baby can be born thanks to in vitro fertilization; persons may be clonner, organ transplants can be performed in order to save lives.
These experiences have positive points, because it can help people who want to be parents, but can not have children; it can save the lives of sick children; there even to cloning that is practiced and is used in medicine to make drugs.
But some changes are dangerous and exceed ethics, they are dangerous because it may be disease transmission (with cloning ) When vitro repproduction there are many risks of developing congenital diseases such as trisomy 21 and they exceed ethics because it’s change genetic inheritance, we can go up to tell us we're not sure that who we are..
We can say that biotechnology is necessary for the progress of man and is beneficial in many cases as in the fight against serious genetic diseases, or allows to help people who want to be parents, but can’t have children but questions on bioethics are necessary to avoid some abuses of progress that could cause a dehumanization of our society. The brakes imposed by ethical reflection can prevent excessive expansion of cloning and prevent the automation of our world.
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