The field of medicine and biotechnology

The field of medicine and biotechnology

The field of medicine and biotechnology has in the recent past, advanced more rapidly. The rapid advancement is majorly caused by the desire of scientists to the endless biological problems that face the human race. The progress is mainly as a result of successful scientific experiments. However, while crediting the rapid advancement compared to the past, there is a trail of failed scientific tests. These failed experiments were once progressing pieces of scientific innovations before failing to assimilate in the natural environment. Ethical concerns arise on every step made in the realization of new technology in the medical sector “story of last-ditch gambles on unproven theories, of laboratory technique” (Belkin 2). The question is always on the effects of the upcoming technology on the human lives that the technology will be used on “were more than a little perturbed at the thought that mind control was seen as a viable solution to social injustice or crime” (Slater 4). Some questions also point at the result of the biotechnological invention, and its future relationship with the existing population. Ethical concerns are meant to protect life from human-made factors that may be deemed not friendly to life.

In the medical industry, since the technological revolution, technology has been the leading contributor to finding solutions to a human-related problem. Many diseases and disorders that initially had no found cure currently in this technological era have a cure “Had these children been born as recently as 1982, Auerbach explained, there would have been no possible treatment” (Belkin 3). Such diseases are cancer, mental disorders and other organ-related disorders. Organ transplants are matched accurately using technology, and the majority of the total population that has had organ transplants have survived. Majority of medical milestones have been attributed to technology. However, real lives are put at risk, some of which are terminated during each of scientific experiments carried out to reveal a new technology “And so, Mario became one of the first American psychiatric patients to undergo this highly experimental procedure” (Slater 3). These scientific experiments are inclusive of those that have failed. This means that for every effort made to cure and protect life from biological and health threats, some experiences are lost while others change forever, for the best or the worst.

According to bioethics, these procedures could be expressed as guesses on human life while trying to save a life. Ethically, saving a life is a morally right action while using experience in experiments is a morally wrong action. This situation creates a different question on the ethics of biomedical and technological advances in the field of medicine “And psycho-surgery, by its very nature, brings with it a thicket of ethical twisters” (Slater 3). A similar situation is discussed in bioethics, on the actions of a doctor directed at saving a life, while still terminating life to stop suffering. These and many issues in the medical industry revolve around the ethics of wrong and right morals. In the case described in Belkin’s “Made-To-Order Savior”, Belkin describes a situation in which parents sire children specifically to save others. “It is human nature to do everything to save a life and just as human to agonize over everything we do” (Belkin 2). Donor-to-be children are also engineered scientifically to save children that are suffering from the Fanconi anaemia.

These and many other cases present the war between scientific innovations in the medical field and bioethics. These scenarios show a non-possibility of equilibrium between technological advances in medicine and bioethics.