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This dissertation project aims to explore, being as a medical resource, how gene technology makes distribution equalably when it becomes a medical application. It is noteworthy that the medical application of gene technology can be categorized as therapy and enhancement. The purpose of the the therapy is to deal with birth defects or diseases. And the enhancement, which aims to improve body function, actually violates human nature. Therefore, this project is going to claimss that individuals have the to gene therapy, but not the right to enhancement. In other words, the right to genetic enhancement still cantnot recognized at present. This project firstly intends to justify that individuals have the right to gene therapy, and then clarifies that the right to gene intervention still can not be applied to the the genetic enhancement. In terms of social equality, this project attempts to argue that citizens have no right to ask for access to enhancement procedures, at the expense of either public resources or private property. However, according to the principle of equality, a just society cannot ignore the influences caused by differential human gift upon the life-prospect. It should be noticed that, a just society has to regulate its basic structure on the basis of the difference pricciple rather than provide equal access through genetic enhancement.
In order to confine the right to gene intervention to medical curing, this project shall scrutinize the health care services for citizens and to make a clear statement that the right to gene therapy should be identified as a part of the health care services. It is not obligate for either a country or a society to make genetic enhancement as one part of health care services. Namely, citizens cannot request the right to genetic enhancement. About the rights of citizens, there are two concerns raised. First, a country has no duty to provide genetic enhancement as a public resource. Second, individuals are not allowed to gain enhancement procedures at the expense of private property. Genetic enhancement should not be opened up for free market, and it also needs not to take account of individual freedom. This disseration project would like to adpot John Rawls’s principles of justice and Norman Daniels’s rights to just health care to be the main argument.
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