Biodiversity — Issues in genetics, forestry and ethics

Onm-16: Ethics Issues in Assisted ReproductiveTechnology

Ethics, genetics and pediatrics.

OBJECTIVES To reflect on the nature of ethics, from a contemporary perspective, and also on which features of the family relationship have an impact on the interface between genetics and pediatrics. SOURCES The data used are the fruit of the authors' own intellectual production plus other bibliographic references. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS Genetics has presented ethics with new challenges. Pa...

[Public health, genetics and ethics].

Genetics research has shown enormous developments in recent decades, although as yet with only limited clinical application. Bioethical analysis has been unable to deal with the vast problems of genetics because emphasis has been put on the principlism applied to both clinical and research bioethics. Genetics nevertheless poses its most complex moral dilemmas at the public level, where a social...

Ethical issues in genetics.

The first section of the Notes on Moral Theology reviews ethical issues in genetics through the lenses of privacy-confidentiality; risk-benefit analysis in relation to prenatal diagnosis and gene therapy; and freedom-determinism/human dignity in the context of cloning. The author provides an overview of developments in genetics and highlights thematic issues common to these developments.

Beefing up biodiversity issues

The many disappointments about the achievements on protecting biodiversity in the year many targets were set will be freshly addressed at a meeting in Japan next month as part of a path to new commitments by the United Nations on the issue. “Many developed countries face a threat to their economies and loss of culture if more is not done to protect the environment better,” the SecretaryGeneral ...