Comparative legal frameworks for pre-implantation embryonic genetic interventions / Pin Lean Lau.
Lau, Pin Lean, author.
2019
K3601 .C66 2019
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Title Comparative legal frameworks for pre-implantation embryonic genetic interventions / Pin Lean Lau.
Author Lau, Pin Lean, author.
ISBN 9783030223083 (electronic book)
3030223086 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-22
Call Number K3601 .C66 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 344.04/1
Summary This book discusses the possibilities for the use of international human rights law (and specifically, international biomedical laws related to the protection of human rights and the human genome) to provide a guiding framework for the future regulation of genetic modifications applied to human embryos and other precursor materials, when these are made with the aim of implanting a genetically altered embryo in a woman. The significance and timeliness of the work derives from the recent availability of CRISPR/ Cas9 and other gene editing tools, and from lacunae in international law regarding the legality of embryo modification with these tools and appropriate governance structures for the oversight of resulting practices. The emergence of improved genome editing tools like CRISPR/Cas9, holds the promise of eradicating genetic diseases in the near future. But its possible future applications with Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) raises a plethora of legal and ethical concerns about "remaking" future human beings. The work aims to address an urgent call, to embed these rising concerns about biomedical advancements into the fundamental tailoring of legal systems. Suitable regulatory approaches, coupled with careful reflection of global biomedical laws and individual constitutional systems must be explored. The Book analyzes the impact of reproductive biomedical technologies on the legal and ethical dimensions of regulatory frameworks in selected constitutional systems like the US, the UK, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand. Employing a comparative law methodology, the work reveals a dynamic intersection between legal cultures, socio-philosophical reasoning and the development of a human rights-based framework in bio-political studies. Navigating towards a truly internationalized biomedical approach to emerging technologies, it presents an understanding why a renegotiation and reinvigoration of a contemporary and "new" universal shared values system in the international human rights discourse is now necessary.
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Introduction
The Legacy of Eugenics in Contemporary Law
The Legal and ethical debates in Embryo Selection
The Regulatory Framework in Biomedical Technologies
International Biomedical Laws in the Field of Genetic Interventions
The Dynamics of Basic Constitutional Rights in Selected Jurisdictions
Conclusion
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