https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2005.386

Osservazioni etiche e implicazioni medico-legali in materia di "test genetici"

Vol. 54 No. 4 (2005)
Published: August 30, 2005
Tests-genetici, genoma, non-pazienti, eugenetica / Genetic-tests, genome, un-patients, eugenics
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L.M. Bucci
medicinaemorale@rm.unicatt.it
Dipartimento di Medicina Legale, del Lavoro, Psicologia Medica e Criminologia dell'Università di Genova - Sezione di Medicina Legale, Genova, Italy.
M. Paganelli
Dipartimento di Medicina Legale, del Lavoro, Psicologia Medica e Criminologia dell'Università di Genova - Sezione di Medicina Legale, Genova, Italy.
A. Ventura
Dipartimento di Medicina Legale, del Lavoro, Psicologia Medica e Criminologia dell'Università di Genova - Sezione di Medicina Legale, Genova, Italy.
F. Ventura
Dipartimento di Medicina Legale, del Lavoro, Psicologia Medica e Criminologia dell'Università di Genova - Sezione di Medicina Legale, Genova, Italy.
R. Celesti
Dipartimento di Medicina Legale, del Lavoro, Psicologia Medica e Criminologia dell'Università di Genova - Sezione di Medicina Legale, Genova, Italy.
A partire dalla Corea di Huntigton, e procedendo lungo la ricerca del genoma e la sua decodificazione, si sono riscontrate e scoperte numerose conformazioni genetiche che possono preludere all'instaurarsi di malattie o contribuire ad una predisposizione; ciò sembra sempre più importante in termini di eziopatogenesi per esempio nella ricerca oncologica e anche delle malattie degenerative. Tale situazione comporta che l'analisi del patrimonio genetico di ciascun individuo contribuirà ad identificare una schiera innumerevole di non-pazienti, e nello stesso tempo a mutare il concetto di salute e di malattia, dato che predisposizioni genetiche ad una malattia piuttosto che ad un'altra sono presumibilmente ubiquitarie. Ne risulta la necessità di regolamentare secondo principi etici volta per volta identificati l'uso dei tests genetici, e a limitarne l'applicazione indiscriminata; ne risulterebbe altrimenti un'utilizzazione eugenetica o comunque discriminante delle singole persone e/o nascituri.
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Beginning from Huntington's Chorea, and proceeding belong the research of genome and his codification, many genetic conformation have been found to predictive into most of cancers or degenerative diseases. This situation involves that the analysis of genetic heritage of each individual will contribute to an identification of a multitude of un-patients, and will give a contribution to change the concept of health and illness. The result is the need to regulate the useful of genetic tests in agree on ethical principles every time in according with the people or the patients; the indiscriminate application of them risks an eugenic and discriminating utilization against people or new born.

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Bucci, L., Paganelli, M., Ventura, A., Ventura, F., & Celesti, R. (2005). Osservazioni etiche e implicazioni medico-legali in materia di "test genetici". Medicina E Morale, 54(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2005.386

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