Genetic Determinism – Definition, History, and its Role in Medicine and in Ethics
Keywords:
enzym, fenotyp, genotyp, anemia sierpowata, paradygmatAbstract
In this article I briefly present a notion of genetic determinism, its history, and its influence on the understanding of some selected issues within genetics, medicine and bioethics. Special interest is given to three issues: 1) the “nature vs. nurture” problem, which is broadly discussed in science as well as in ethics; 2) the prejudice concerning heritability of various traits; and 3) the potential influence of the Human Genome Project on the comprehension of these matters.
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