https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2013.97

Su alcuni effetti delle trasformazioni nella generazione umana

Vol. 62 No. 3 (2013)
Published: June 30, 2013
Generazione umana, fecondazione artificiale, figlio / Human generation, artificial fertilization, child
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Pietro Refolo
pietro.refolo@rm.unicatt.it
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
Le odierne applicazioni della medicina hanno introdotto tali e tante trasformazioni nell'atto procreativo umano, da rendere plausibile l'idea che sia in corso una sorta di "rivoluzione riproduttiva". Tra le problematiche risultanti delle trasformazioni in atto vi è, per un verso, un effetto involutivo sulla generazione umana, nel senso che esse hanno ridotto o rischiano di ridurre l'"evento" rappresentato dalla nascita a mero "fatto biologico", di "avvicinare" pericolosamente i meccanismi che la regalano a quelli della riproduzione animale e di rendere "superflua", nel processo generativo, l'integrazione affettivo-morale tra due persone, che poi è quel che qualifica più specificatamente il riprodursi umano. Per altro verso, vi sono una serie di mutamenti nella scena sociale concernenti l'atteggiamento che l'adulto ha nei confronti dei nuovi nati e lo "statuto simbolico" del figlio, la cui immagine è sempre meno associabile a nozioni quali "ospite", "dono" "frutto", "benedizione" e sempre associabile a quella di "desiderio" da soddisfare a tutti costi. Il contributo tenta un approfondimento di queste criticità.
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Medicine applications have changed human procreation to the point that the idea of a sort of "reproductive revolution" is plausible. Among the issues resulting from these changes, we have to consider, on the one hand, the regressive effect on human generation, in the sense that they have reduced or may reduce birth "event" into mere "biological fact", to "approximate" dangerously its mechanisms to animal reproduction and to make "unnecessary" emotional integration among people, that is what qualifies more specifically human reproduction, within human generative processes. On the other hand, several changes in the social scene regarding adult's attitude towards new born and the "symbolic status" of the child, whose image is less and less associated to notions such as "guest" "gift", "fruit", "blessing" and more and more associated to "desire" to win at all costs. The contribution intends to debate these critical issues.

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Refolo, P. (2013). Su alcuni effetti delle trasformazioni nella generazione umana. Medicina E Morale, 62(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2013.97

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