[Bioethics in genetic diagnosis and therapy].
Human genetics, or medical genetics have been rarely taught in most of the medical schools in Japan, as there are only several medical schools with genetics departments among 80 medical schools in Japan. Bioethics has just been becoming an important issue in the medical community in Japan. People hate to be told of hereditary diseases, possibly due to the traditional concept of hereditary diseases as punishment for the evil acts of the ancestors. Recent rapid progress in genetic diagnosis and therapy, however, requires the medical community in Japan to consider the bioethical aspects related to human genetics. We need proper guidelines, and the efforts have been made by the government as well as by the Society for Familial Tumor to propose practical guidelines for human genetics. They may considerably be different from those in the Western countries.
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Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kinki University.
D001675:Bioethics; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D005826:Genetics, Medical / Q000193:education; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007564:Japan; D009386:Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000628:therapy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic