It is exactly this mitigation for which bio and medical ethics have their prime purpose and directive.
Certainly, the genie is out of the bottle. However, the technology can be tamed if the moral issues can be properly defined, discussed and professional enforcement mechanisms can be instituted, enforced and made to last. While the pursuit of science and research can be exciting, the professionals can lose their morality in the pursuit and they need to be reminded of right and wrong along the way. Further, they need to know that there will be proper punishment for violating the professional norms. In addition, medicine needs to reclaim some of its patina as a calling or vocation and not just simply a job. In this way, many moral red lines that would otherwise be crossed will be more likely to be respected.
In this short paper, the author dealt with the issues of bioethics such as justice and autonomy in health care, autonomy rights and medical information, end of life decision-making and eugenics and human genetics. Each of these issues was examined separately or together as they relate to patient rights and ethics in the medical profession and industry as a whole. The implications of the new technology and their impact upon the above issues were explored and the fears and concerns of the author about the slippery slope represented by the eugenics movement and the promise and yet peril of human genetics if it is misused.
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