https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2007.298

Fuga dal Labirinto Il dibattito morale sulla transgenesi

V. 56 N. 6 (2007)
Pubblicato: dicembre 30, 2007
Transgenesi, xenotrapianti, genoma umano / Transgenesis, xenotransplants, human genome
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Maurizio P. Faggioni
faggionimp@libero.it
Ordinario di Bioetica alla Accademia Alfonsiana, Roma e membro della Pontificia Accademia per la Vita, Italy.
I progressi delle biotecnologie dischiudono scenari nuovi con i quali deve confrontarsi la riflessione bioetica. La produzione di ibridi, chimere e organismi transgenici usando gameti o materiale genetico umano è tra le questioni più scottanti e attuali. L'articolo ribadisce, secondo l'insegnamento di Donum Vitae, l'illiceità delle diverse forme di ibridi e chimere, mentre ritiene non illecita in linea di principio la transgenesi con geni di provenienza umana anche in mammiferi superiori, purchè siano rispettate alcune condizioni prudenziali. In questa prospettiva di cauta apertura alla transgenesi si muoveva il documento sugli Xenotrapianti della Pontificia Accademia per la Vita. Le posizioni dell'Accademia sono state criticate da un gruppo di eticisti australiani le cui argomentazioni vengono esaminate e respinte nel presente articolo.
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The progress of the biotechnologies disclose new sceneries to which bioethics reflection has to compare. The production of hybrids, chimeras and transgenic organisms using gametes or human genetic material is among the most burning and actual matters. The article insists, according to the teaching of Donum Vitae, on the unlawfulness of the different forms of hybrids and chimeras, while it consider not illegitimate in principle the transgenesis with genes of human origin also in superior mammals, provided that some prudential conditions are respected. The document on the Xenotransplants of the Pontifical Academy for Life shares this perspective of cautious opening to the transgenesis. The positions of the Academy are been criticized by a group of Australian ethicists whose arguments are examined and rejected in the present article.

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Faggioni, M. P. (2007). Fuga dal Labirinto Il dibattito morale sulla transgenesi. Medicina E Morale, 56(6). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2007.298

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