Ethics includes evaluating the successes and errors of specific technologies and applications (such as cloning or genetic diagnosis). Another important ethical activity is to examine the broader goals and objectives of companies such as biotechnology. Relief from illness is one goal, but there are others that may be more ethically controversial. Biotechnology is a constantly evolving field of science.
While it has many benefits, such as reducing our environmental footprint and helping to treat diseases and ailments, it is not without drawbacks. The four main concerns revolve around ethical, security, bioterrorism and environmental issues. There will always be ethical issues in genetic engineering and biotechnology. I must say that it is rewarding to work with those who are increasingly successful in addressing human needs and alleviating human suffering.
Dedicating time to this reflection can go against the pace of biotechnological advances and arrogance in the face of human wisdom. He is the director of Biotechnology and Health Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Santa Clara. Modern biotechnology, which focuses on molecular biology and its concern to increase human health and life expectancy, revolves around the future. The unexpected arrival of new biotechnologies, from cloning to xenotransplantation, leaves the public and the scientific community without a framework for considering concomitant ethical issues.
They were not at the time, but were the subject of furious debates and academic disputes with vital consequences for public policies, the economy and the future of genetic engineering and biotechnology. Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or manufacture products, or any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives to manufacture or modify products or processes for a specific use. The development of the biotechnology necessary to design negligible senescence means that the indefinite extension of life is good for humanity. The capacity of biotechnology to create and change human lives requires careful reflection on what it means to be human and the place occupied by the human person.
No area of biotechnology more clearly emphasizes the need for careful ethical reflection than its potential to affect human nature.
