ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the idea of an integrally personalist approach. It is also concerned with the context of in vitro fertilisation/preimplantation diagnosis and ‘the logic of the civilisation process’. Daily the territory ruled by chance is diminishing. Exaggerating, one could say that anyone who wants preventive medicine has to accept genetic engineering in the long run. Biotechnology is deeply anchored in the continuing medicalisation of the welfare state. In the German fairy-tale about the race between the hare and the hedgehog, it is – against all experience-based expectations – the hedgehog who is winning the race: he is always already there. The logic of the research-system and the involvement of economic interests create a system with its own internal dynamics, a so-called ‘super-structure’.
