Scientific developments and medicine of the person
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Curing and preventing the diseases are still the main priorities of medicine, but extending the biological life, enhancing the human capacities, interfacing man and machine, modifying the genome appear to be today objective and realistic goals also, which are susceptible to improve the therapeutic results. Then, the question raised is: are the present goals of medicine still what they should be or should we identify new ones?
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