Biomedicine, the Family and Human Rights
Biomedicine, the Family and Human Rights

Author: Marie-Thérèse Meulders-Klein

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002-04-01

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 9047403037

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This volume examines the impact of advances in genetics and assisted reproduction technologies on family law, human rights and the rights of the child, including the effects of international treaties on national legislation. It surveys the theoretical, ethical and legal discussions with regard to biotechnology and family law issues and the search for a balance between safeguarding respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need to ensure freedom of research. However, biotechnology impinges not only on isolated individuals and their rights, but also on unborn children, the family as a network of living relationships and the basic structure of any society, as well as the foundation of parentage and kinship, social organization as a whole and, finally, mankind itself. As the attention of the World turns to cloning, this book will contribute to the search for a balance between the rights and freedoms of born and yet to be born human beings and the quest for new technologies.

Man-made Man
Man-made Man

Author: Peter Doherty

Publisher: Four Courts Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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The aim of this book is to provide a popular introduction to the latest developments in clinical genetics and the aspirations for the future among those working in the field. One author explores the historical background to the latest scientific discoveries and techniques. Other authors explain where we stand now by providing simple accounts of the present state of knowledge and current medical practice. Among the subjects treated arc: pre-implantation and prenatal testing; carrier testing with a view to reproductive choice; somatic gene therapy, germ-line gene therapy and non-therapeutic genetic interventions.