From OMICs to Ethics: Points to Start the Debate

Abstract

As any other field of the medicine which is experiencing fast and broad development, the OMICs methods face new challenges in terms of ethical and policy issues. Therefore in this chapter, by reviewing the greatest impact of these innovations on medicine and its domains, the main ethical issues in therapeutic relationship and clinical researches will be interpreted in terms of OMICs ethics. Therefore after some introducing paragraphs, this chapter consists of three main parts and their subcategories: the ethical foundations of therapeutic relationship and their meaning in OMICs era, the principles of clinical research ethics and their interpretation in OMICs field, and finally the social and policy points in OMICs practice.