Abstract

CALISE, Santiago Gabriel. IMPROVEMENT IN BIOETHICAL DATABASES. pers.bioét. [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.1, pp.68-84. ISSN 0123-3122.

This work addresses the debate mounted in the last decade on the subject of improvement in its different variations. There is a striking lack of consensus when it comes to defining the concept and the need to permit or prohibit such practices. The only point on which there is widespread agreement is the need to block improvements that involve health hazards, thereby postponing the debate based on arguments that go beyond the mere risk to physical wellbeing. Thus, it seems as though scientific criteria are what determines the fate of social behavior. In this sense, the category of medicalization will allow for accommodating a critique of contemporary society and the hegemony of the medical-scientific vision.

Keywords : Biomedical enhancement; genetic enhancement; bioethics; biological therapy; medicalization.

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