Abstract

HERNANDEZ MOORE, Elizabeth; ALVAREZ VAZQUEZ, Jorge  and  REGUERO MUNOZ, José Luis. The Human Genome Project: A double edge weapon. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2001, vol.1, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.

Alter brief historical review that informs on the surprising advances of the genetics starting from the discovery of the spiral structure of the DNA, the article centres its attention in the birth of the genetic studies in the United Status of America, the causes and conditions that motivated them, intil ending in the I multinacional Human Genome Project without forgetting the scientific stature of such Project. It is attempted a llok from the perspective of the North-South relationships, remiting us of the more incisive way to the most controversial ethical aspects of the HPG. We argue that in the societies of the South we shoujd be in charge of organizing hierchically the main bioethical problems that we suffer and they are even very distant of those that are in charge of the HGP. We refer that the societies of the South should insert in their calendar, projections in science, technology and society among those that the HGP does not qualify like an autochthonous priority, even when we do not disquilify in its essence such megaprojects originated in the centers and circuits characteristics of the science of the North

Keywords : HUMAN GENOME PROJECT.

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