「ライフサイエンス・医療と社会」　第12回　研究セミナーを開催します。

【日時】

2016年10月13日（木）16:30～17:30

【場所】

大阪大学大学院医学系研究科附属
最先端医療イノベーションセンター棟3階演習室1

【講演者】

Catherine Mills, PhD
Associate Professor, ARC Future Fellow
Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University

【講演テーマ】

Intergenerational relations and the ethics of gene editing

ゲノム編集技術は、生殖細胞系列への介入に用いられた場合、親と子などの世代間の関係を大きく変えてしまう可能性を持つ。本発表では、こうした問題についてすでに議論を行っているサン デルやハーバーマスらの哲学者の試みの検討と評価を行う。

According to a number of bioethicists and philosophers, genome editing techniques have the potential to profoundly alter intergenerational relations in ways that may prove ethically deleterious. Until recently, bioethical literature has steered away from considering germ-line modifications of humans, focusing instead on somatic cell genetic engineering. In this paper, I discuss two approaches to genetic engineering, which can broadly be characterized as bioconservative’, to consider the extent to which these frameworks can be extended to inheritable genetic modification, particularly in order to clarify the ethical implications for intergenerational relations. These are Sandel’s critique of a drive to mastery and corresponding formulation of an ethics of the gift and Habermas’s concern that genetic engineering threatens to transform the ethical self-understanding of the species. Following this, I consider Baylis et.al.’s argument for the use of an heuristic of ‘radical rupture’ in discussions of the ethics of inheritable genetic modification. I suggest that while these approaches do help to focus on intergenerational relations, none offer particularly compelling accounts of the morally important features of intergenerational relations. Consequently, the “bio-conservative” critique of gene editing developed so far is of limited value in sorting out the ethical significance of inheritable genome editing techniques such as CRISPR.

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【連絡先】

加藤和人（社会医学講座・医の倫理と公共政策学分野)
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