[Bacteriology and constitutional health--genomics and proteomics: concepts in medicine and concepts in health insurance in the past and future].
Future discussions on health issues on the individual or society level will be fundamentally linked to genetic dispositions. This genetic world will become reality in the same way the world of hygiene and bacteriology has become real for everyone. Approaches of molecular medicine for public health issues have not yet been created so far. The secret dreams of molecular eugenics must be made public and critically discussed. Up to now only a few monogenetically recessive hereditary diseases can be detected by screening. This kind of screening should be carefully considered. However, for the sciences, for medicine and thus for the physicians in practice, for health care sciences as well as for public health care, new tasks will emerge from genetics and molecular medicine. In individual as well as public health these new tasks will at first mainly turn in on the sphere of diagnosis and specific screening as well as health education and consultation. With regard to the considerable social implications the public health care sector should be aware of the coming issues of molecular medicine in time.
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Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Düsseldorf. histmed@uni-duesseldorf.de
D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000639:trends*; D005053:Eugenics / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D005820:Genetic Testing / Q000639:trends*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000639:trends*; D011634:Public Health / Q000639:trends*