アルツハイマー病の意味論(第7回日本生命倫理学会年次大会ワークショップ「遺伝をめぐる倫理問題」発表原著)
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We can say apotosis is the mechanism that a cell kills itself actively, i, e, genetically. It has been shown lately that Alzheimer disease can be caused by apotosis, i. e. there can be a gene that causes it. The meaning of the disease, i. e. the reason why life has gotten such disease, can be understood by the view of evolution. In general, diseases can be thought as abnormal process of life. Then alzheimer disease brings about a contradiction, because it can be considered as normal process of life. The expression [disease caused by normal process] means that the concept of disease we have had doesn't expect the new situation brought by the new research of alzheimer disease. The way of the cure is thought to suppress or to remove the gene. But this does not think about the meaning of the disease caused by apotosis as a normal process of life. Indeed every cure may beartificial, but the cure seems interference in nature. From the viewpoint of history of science, or philosophy of science, we can understand how or why they get to such a way of curing. It is due to the reductionistic view of diseases that is derived from cartesian mechanism. In this view, human body is a machine composed of each parts and the disease is thought to be result of the disorder. Therefore, if the cause or the place of a disease is identified, the cure is completed by the removal. Transplantation is typical of the thought. But this lacks holistic view of human body, so cartesian mechanistic scientists or doctors will not see the holistic, or evolutionistic significance which cell death caused by alzheimer disease has. Now we can say cartesian reductionistic mechanism challenges our death acquired through evolution. We should think about such a disease caused by apotosis as alzheimer disease from holistic view.
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- 1996-06-30