Abstract

VIEIRA BOMTEMPO, Tiago. GENE DOPING AND EUGENIA: DIALOGUES BEYOND SPORT. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.2, pp.82-101. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.1816.

Genetic engineering has brought possibilities before unimaginable, in which not long ago was only seen in movies. Of gene therapy, aiming at a correction or cure a disease, pass the possibility of genetic improvement, currently glimpsed in the sports world with gene doping. But, gene doping would not be violating the right to genetic patrimony unmodified? Though the genetic intervention is not transmitted on to offspring, there would be a genetic enhancement, which would affect the genome of the athlete and differentiate from other athletes and other individuals, injuring the principle of equality to the detriment of private autonomy, It may be to speak initially a relationship of domination, although it is because of physical performance in sports. In this sense, these innovations that permeate the field of genetic engineering, instil a concern about genetic manipulation in future generations, discussion point not only biomedical, but also bioethical and biojuridical. Thus, there arises a concern if these new advances can affect the human dignity in the face of a possible eugenics, due to the projection of people and the consequent discrimination by determined genetic identity. Along with this, the objective of this article is investigate whether gene doping would offend the right to genetic patrimony not modified and the rights of future generations, leading to a new form of eugenics, by not permitting the exercise of equal fundamentals liberties. To this end, research is needed on the basis of authors of bioethics and biolawin addition to national and international legal texts that involve the theme. Indispensable discussion of such questions, especially with the proximity of the Summer Olympic Games in Brazil this year 2016 target event to occur the first cases of this doping method. It is in this sense that justifies the theme of this research, to recognize the need to bring gene doping not only for the sports area, but with a bioethical and legal discussion, questioning the implications that this practice can bring to humanity.

Keywords : Gene doping; right to genetic patrimony unmodified; rights of future generations; eugenics.

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