Korean Journal of Medical Ethics

The Korean Society for Medical Ethics

Korean J Med Ethics 2001; 4(2):121-133

pISSN: 2005-8284, eISSN: 2234-3598

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35301/ksme.2001.4.2.121

Article

유전자기술윤리(Genethics)에 대한 교육(敎育)

강미정¹

Genethical Education of Genethics

Mi-Jung KANG¹

¹한남대학교 철학고

¹Department of Philosophy, Hannam University

ⓒ Copyright 2001 The Korean Society for Medical Ethics. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Dec 31, 2001

ABSTRACT

Education in the field of genetic engineering is essential. Such education enables all of us to be better informed both about the science and about the ethics of genetic engineering.

This paper discusses the ethical education of genetic engineering, that is Genethics education.

This paper reviews the educational meaning, direction, objectives and its methods, it mainly points out the public understanding of genetic engineering is urgent. However, the education for public understanding by informing knowledge has basic problems in making their attitudes. For this reason, this paper asks Genethics education should be applied in school education system. Therefore, after analyzing the present ethics textbook in korean high school, I suggests the aims, curricula, and methods of genethics education should put into school education system.

Keywords: 유전자기술윤리학; 유전자기술윤리교육; 대중교육; 학교교육

Keywords: Genethical Education; Genetic Engineering; Public Understanding