Question 13 · LEK · Human genome and procreation
Are doctors allowed to intervene in human genome?
- A. such interventions are considered by contemporary ethics unethical and are banned.
- B. Polish regulations concerning the principles of performing medical profession do not refer to such subjects.
- C. such interventions can be only purely prophylactic.
- D. such interventions can have only therapeutic goal.
- E. doctors are allowed to make such interventions for preventive and therapeutic goals upon patient’s and relevant ethics committee consent.
Hint
The Code of Medical Ethics allows genome interventions only for certain purposes and only with two kinds of approval.
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