transdisciplinarity: a new status of the suBject in health? epistemological and ethical questions

Abstract

the discoveries in human genetics regularly question the meaning and limits ofour interventions. in fact, to intervene on the physical nature challenges theirethical framework. However a gap exists between a medicine treating biologicalimbalances, diseases with organics repercussions and the psychological, socialand cultural reality of the treated human persons. this gap hopes to fade withbioethics, word that has, in its vocation, the desire to meet the “bios” (biology’stechniques and knowledge) and ethics. Ethics therefore refers to the “self”, towhat has an independent existence, contrary to the quest for universality science and technology. the same difference is suggested by the genome, whichincludes universal elements essential to the coding transmission and thedevelopment of life in general as well as the inscription and the manifestation ofindividual characters. Between the universal and the singular, unmasks the issueof the different levels of human reality. Each has its own laws making the geneticor bioethics questioning not only scientific or moral but also phenomenological,epistemological and logical. transdisciplinarity in these areas could fosterdebate and open up innovative perspectives on the question of the subject into,through and beyond disease