Nicolae Morar

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, West Lafayette, .

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Pagina web a instituţiei: www.purdue.edu
Pagina web personala: www.purdue.edu/bioethics

Nascut(a) in: 1979

Interese: bioetica, teorie critica, etica medicala,

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"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" by Billy Joy (Wired, 2000)
The new universe of reproductive genetics, nanotechnologies, and robotics is leading our world into a new era in which humans may be rendered obsolete. Is this a real warning or simply a new form of technophobia? In either case, Bill Joy's worry should provoke us to undertake new forms of inquiry and interdisciplinary research. We do not need to be scientists to see that emerging biotechnologies will have enormous implications for our future, and that the promises of sciences are irremediably changing our world. In 1997, Ian Wilmut, the controversial "father of Dolly," created the first mammal from one adult cell. Although cloning experiments on human cells have thus far failed, we no longer know where to draw the boundaries between the human, the animal, and the machine, or even how to define them. We are increasingly living in a "blurry" space that as yet lacks any social consensus on these issues. The problem is that no specific research area can produce a sufficient answer to the challenge raised by these new technologies: politicians cannot define policies without a scientific gaze at the issue, ethicists cannot draw guidelines without knowing exactly where physicians put the line between therapy and amelioration, bioengineers do not know if the creation of modified genetic organs will change our environment, economists cannot predict if all scientific changes in the deep structure of living organs will be profitable for our future. Because we firmly believe that the future needs us and we are directly responsible for it, we are persuaded that this challenge must be discussed by all the social actors involved in this phenomenon.

Publicații selectate:

* Nicolae Morar, From Consensus to Responsibility as Solidarity or How does discursive ethics overcome its critiques?, Romanian Journal of Bioethics, June/September, 2007.

* Nicolae Morar, Mark Bernstein, Euthanasia - dialogue with Mark Bernstein, Romanian Journal of Bioethics, January/March, 2007.

* Nicolae Morar, Context, Structure, and Application – How does genetic testing challenge the Foucaldian model of biopower?, Romanian Journal of Bioethics, Aprilie, 2006.