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KMID : 1146320160040010001
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Journal of Health Technology Assessment
2016 Volume.4 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.4
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Utopia or Distopia
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Suh Guk-Hee
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Abstract
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Current health technologies have helped to fulfill sincere human wishes to maintain good health when growing older. But there are still many chronic incurable diseases such as cancer, dementia and cerebrovascular disease. Personalized medicine has brought new paradigm for diagnosis and treatment, and drastic innovation is expected by gene therapy soon. Now, in the field of synthetic biology, human beings are able to manipulate existing life and create new life which has never been existed. Not only to create and design a new life, frontline scientists can make an existing life become a machinery for human beings or a robot which human beings can remotely control. The most serious ethical problem is the fact that these technologies are also applicable to human beings. Within decades, thanks to new technologies, human beings may be incomparably greater in capacities like physiology, immunity, and physical ability as well as emotional and even intellectual function. Debates on researches using human embryonic stem cell are still on-going, but it is expected that no one can stop the enthusiasm of frontline scientists to upgrade capacities of human being in near future. Serious concerns on the scientific enthusiasm driven by human selfishness and destructive tendencies are coexisting with sincere hopes to enter into the God’s realm to create new human beings having incomparably greater capacities.
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KEYWORD
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Personalized medicine, Gene therapy, Synthetic biology, Ethics, Health technology
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