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Vivemos numa época de importante viragem no paradigma da relação entre a ética e ciência. O hiato temporal entre as descobertas científicas e a concomitante reflexão ética desvanece-se progressivamente; a ética, ou talvez mais correctamente a bioética, encontrou o seu ritmo. Aquilo que se designa actualmente de bioética das situações emergentes (clonagem, células estaminais, terapia génica, diagnóstico genético pré-implantatório) tem contribuído de forma marcante para esta viragem. Hoje, a ciência vai acontecendo e a bioética vai reflectindo; reflectindo sobre as possibilidades, equacionado os riscos, avançando propostas que, sem serem científicas, imprimem matizes importantes no ritmo do desenvolvimento científico. No presente texto, através do percurso da investigação em células estaminais, tentaremos analisar de que modo
a bioética é, ou pode ser, um desafio aos limites. Com este exemplo tentaremos ilustrar como o facto de se trazer, por parte da ética, ao debate dúvidas e desafios científicos de modo a resolver objecções ou incertezas éticas se tornou num saudável exercício de boa ética e boa ciência. Talvez se deva saudar esta evolução como promissora do futuro relacionamento entre ética e investigação, comprovado o estímulo (e não o bloqueio) que a bioética pode trazer à reflexão sobre os limites.
We live in an era of important turning point in the paradigm of the relationship between ethics and science. The gap in time between the scientific discoveries and the concomitant ethical reflection gradually wears off; ethics, or perhaps more accurately bioethics, found his rhythm. What is currently bioethics of emerging situations (cloning stem cells, gene therapy, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnostics) has been contributed undoubtedly to this change. Today, Science happens and bioethics reflects; reflecting on the possibilities, considered the risks, advancing proposals which, without being scientific, print hues in the pace of scientific development. In this presentation, through the journey of stem cell research, we will try to analyse how the bioethics is, or can be, a challenge to the limits. With this example we will try to illustrate how bringing ethics to the scientific debate to solve ethical objections or uncertainties become a healthy exercise of good ethics and good science. Perhaps we should welcome this trend as promising for the future relationship between ethics and scientific research; proven the stimulus (and not the block) that ethics could bring to the discussion about the limits.
We live in an era of important turning point in the paradigm of the relationship between ethics and science. The gap in time between the scientific discoveries and the concomitant ethical reflection gradually wears off; ethics, or perhaps more accurately bioethics, found his rhythm. What is currently bioethics of emerging situations (cloning stem cells, gene therapy, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnostics) has been contributed undoubtedly to this change. Today, Science happens and bioethics reflects; reflecting on the possibilities, considered the risks, advancing proposals which, without being scientific, print hues in the pace of scientific development. In this presentation, through the journey of stem cell research, we will try to analyse how the bioethics is, or can be, a challenge to the limits. With this example we will try to illustrate how bringing ethics to the scientific debate to solve ethical objections or uncertainties become a healthy exercise of good ethics and good science. Perhaps we should welcome this trend as promising for the future relationship between ethics and scientific research; proven the stimulus (and not the block) that ethics could bring to the discussion about the limits.
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CARVALHO, Ana Sofia - Boa ética e boa ciência: o percurso da investigação em células estaminais. Revista Interdisciplinar sobre o Desenvolvimento Humano. ISSN 2182-1364. N.º 1 (2010), p. 45-51
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Fundação Manuel Leão