The international law of biotechnology [electronic resource] : human rights, trade, patents, health and the environment / Matthias Herdegen (University of Bonn, Germany).
"In this thoroughly updated second edition, Matthias Herdegen provides a comprehensive and contemporary assessment of the regulation of biotechnology processes and products from an international and comparative perspective, complete with analysis of intricate legal and ethical debates. Consider...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
2023.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Principles of international law.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Preface
- 1. Introduction: regulation of biotechnology, between anxieties and trust in scientific progress
- 2. Law and ethics: an intriguing interplay
- 3. Risks, perceptions and the law: regulatory approaches to risk
- 4. The biotech challenge to human dignity, life and freedom of choice: human rights
- 5. From test tube babies to human clones: salient issues in the international law of biomedicine
- 6. GMOs, crops and precaution: biotechnology and international protection of the environment
- 7. Combating biopiracy: access to genetic resources
- 8. Phantom risks and legitimate concerns: biotechnology and international trade law
- 9. Inventors' claims to life: intellectual property rights and biotechnological inventions
- 10. Conclusion: legal values, individual rights and democratic choices in a pluralist world
- Index.