ABSTRACT

The development of nanopumps, nanocomputers and nano-swimmers will depend on the integration of various fields of knowledge. Intelligent robots are not the most challenging issue facing future medical technology and medical ethics. The greatest challenge is related to biological medical techniques that will put a rocket up evolutionary process. This chapter investigates three areas in relation to the use of medical-genetic tools: abuse of the technology, restructuring of genes and the risk of ethical derailment. We must find a balance that ensures that everyone can be cared for in a respectful way at a sustainable price. In addition, there are many ethical challenges associated with the robotization of the healthcare sector. If such thinking were allowed to spread across the health sector, one could then say that medical ethics were being left to the individual health worker’s personal “instinct”. Bio-ethics questions many aspects of this development, and bio-politics concerns, the political aspects of medical technology and medical ethics.