Dividuation and incompossibility of ethical principles in self-management of genotypic risk

Abstract

With the possibility of detecting genetic predisposition to an increasing number of diseases, including the worldwide highly advertised tests known as at-home genetic tests, genomics, from the bioethics perspective, starts raising different new conflicts unregarded years ago. Considering the vast number of polymorphisms, people face new realities of having genetic markers associated with the risk of developing a disease, many of which have limited options for prevention or treatment. This is a process where the individual becomes a dividual (applying to this scientific advances the concept proposed by Gilles Deleuze) that should not only be concerned about their phenotype but also should handle their genotype by themselves in a context of uncertainty about their health. It is discussed that the dividuation process at a genotypic level increases the bioethical conflicts due to the emergence of new forms of optimums incompossibility between the ethic principles, reflexion made from the perspective of Ricardo Maliandi's ethics of convergence.