Moseley R
Department of Community Health & Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610.
J Med Philos. 1991 Dec;16(6):641-7. doi: 10.1093/jmp/16.6.641.
Determinations of the ethical acceptability of genetic therapy have relied on several distinctions in attempts to separate ethically acceptable genetic therapy from those possible therapies that could lead to genetic modifications of future human beings. One distinction that has been proposed is that genetic modifications of human somatic cells is ethically acceptable but that germ-line genetics modifications would be ethically objectionable. This paper examines several serious difficulties which call into question the ethical relevance of a somatic/germ-line distinction.
对基因治疗伦理可接受性的判定依赖于若干区分，试图将伦理上可接受的基因治疗与那些可能导致未来人类基因改变的潜在治疗方法区分开来。有人提出的一种区分是，对人类体细胞的基因改变在伦理上是可接受的，但生殖系基因改变在伦理上是令人反感的。本文探讨了几个严重的困难，这些困难使体细胞/生殖系区分的伦理相关性受到质疑。
