世界保健機関(WHO)による遺伝医療に関するガイドラインと「優生学」

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently working on proposing an international ethical standard for medical genetic services. The final draft was prepared by D. C. Wertz, J. C.Fletcher, K. Berg and V. Boulyjenkov in 1995 and named "The Guidelines on Ethical Issues in Medical Genetics and the Provision of Genetic Services". I incidentally found that there were two versions of draft of the guidelines. I also had access to both drafts for comparison. The revision involved deleting a large amount of statement mostly about eugenics. Quite interestingly, in the deleted statements, it is argued that a relationship between "past eugenics" and "present day's genetics" could be a potentially dangerous one, which would require serious warning. Many people agree that the purpose of present day's genetics and medical genetic services, of course, is neither to support eugenics as a basis for social engineering nor to promote eugenic policies. It seems that the WHO's guidelines, from the beginning of its development, avoided the term "eugenics" as much as possible. The understandable intention is to treat eugenics as history simply by not referring to it. However, can it be an answer to criticism that present day's genetics could create dangers similar to ones eugenics created in the past as a result of genetics' efforts (not as the purpose)? At least inJapan, although it is ironic to say, it is still necessary to refer to "eugenics" in order to warn against such dangers.

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玉井真理子
信州大学医学部保健学科

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