Abstract

GOMEZ CORDOBA, Ana Isabel. ETHICAL AND JURIDICAL PRINCIPLES OF GENETIC LAW IN INTERNATIONAL DECLARATIONS RELATED TO INTERVENTIONS ON HUMAN GENOMA. Vniversitas [online]. 2010, n.120, pp.141-167. ISSN 0041-9060.

The development of genomic knowledge applied to human health offers great benefits in the form of genomic, predictive or repair medicine; nevertheless carries profound implications for social, political, ethical, economic and ideological, which require an effective regulatory framework, which is known generically genetic law. This article aims to characterize the genetic law only with regard to interventions in the human genome in the area of biomedicine, from the ethical and legal principles that must be part of its philosophical foundation to this en end we analyze the most important statements issued agencies and international associations related to the subject to identify the ethical and legal principles that should guide the characterization of the genetic right.

Keywords : human genome; bio law; genetic law; ethical principles; legal principles; international declarations; human genome; Genome; Human; Legislation; Medical ethics; Forensic Medicine.

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