ENHANCEMENT MEDICINE. QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC ETHIC

Abstract

Before medical treatment there is preventative medicine; beyond treatment there isenhancement. This means that health, namely that state which, as Gadamer would say, is “in itselfnatural” is no longer suffi cient, it is necessary to go “beyond”. But in which direction? Towardwhat idea of health and, above all, toward what idea of man and society? What consequencesmight new biotechnological developments have on the public domain? The paper traies to givean answer to these questions.