Abstract

DE LAS MERCEDES O'LERY, María. Eugenesia actual: un nuevo desafío para las disciplinas metacientíficas. Estud. front [online]. 2006, vol.7, n.13, pp.29-42. ISSN 2395-9134.

Until now, the parameters that distinguish the current eugenic practices form those encased in classic eugenics have been the private, individual and therapeutic characteristics of the first as opposed to the collective, coercive and improvement nature of the second. However, the present ethical debate over biotechnologies (particularly, criticism of liberal eugenics by such authors as Jürgen Habermas) has given rise to the need to consider, in the future, genetic treatment as an object of the redistribution in order to avoid the discrimination implied in the impossibility of access to such treatment. The present paper attempts to show that this pretension would lead to the future dissolution of those very characteristics of current eugenics that distinguish it from the classic form. We therefore propose an epistemological analysis of present and/or future scientific practices in order to redefine those parameters that prevent their identification with the eugenic movement of the past century.

Keywords : classic eugenics; liberal eugenics; state intervention; distinction parameters; epistemology.

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