Xenotransplantation and Risk: Regulating a Developing Biotechnology

ISBN-13: 9780521195768 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 306 str.

Sara Fovargue

Opis

Can existing legal and ethical norms accommodate biotechnologies which may benefit the recipient but harm the public?

Recenzje

'This book offers an up-to-date analysis and commentary of the issues pertaining to regulating xenotransplantation. Fovargue writes in a lucid, straightforward manner, without compromising on myriad complexities that surround xenotransplantation.' Nishat Hyder, Law, Innovation and Technology

Spis treści

1. Introducing the issues; 2. Dealing with risk; 3. Regulating experimental procedures and medical research; 4. Regulatory responses to developing biotechnologies; 5. Challenges to legal and ethical norms: first party consent and third parties at risk; 6. Surveillance and monitoring: balancing public health and individual freedom; 7. Looking to the future.