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- Title
Human dignity: a guide to policy making in the biotechnology era?
- Authors
Caulfield, Timothy; Brownsword, Roger
- Abstract
This article explores the ways in which human dignity is used in debates about controversial biotechnologies, including biobanks, human gene patents, stem cell research and human cloning. Increasingly, human dignity is used as a form of general condemnation and as blanket justification for regulatory restraint. However, this use of human dignity marks a significant departure from the traditional, human-rights informed view of human dignity that has dominated bioethics debates for decades. In addition, on its own, it stands as dubious justification for policies that are aimed at constraining controversial biotechnologies.
- Subjects
HUMAN gene mapping; CLONING; GENETIC engineering; BIOTECHNOLOGY; STEM cells; DEVELOPMENTAL genetics
- Publication
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2006, Vol 7, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
1471-0056
- Publication type
research
- DOI
10.1038/nrg1744