Xenotransplantation and Risk - Regulating a Developing Biotechnology

Informationen zum Autor Sara Fovargue is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University, where she specialises in health care law and ethics. Her main interests are clinical research involving human and non-human animals, risk and regulation with regards to developing biotechnologies and decision-making practices for vulnerable groups within health care law and practice. Klappentext Can existing legal and ethical norms accommodate biotechnologies which may benefit the recipient but harm the public? Zusammenfassung Sara Fovargue explores the law's ability to protect people from the risk posed by xenotransplantation (cross-species transplantation). By exploring regulatory approaches to biotechnologies in the UK and elsewhere! she highlights how such biotechnologies challenge existing legal and ethical norms and how this influences their regulation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Fovargue, Sara (Lancaster University) Fovargue, Fovargue Sara
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2011
• EAN: 9780521195768
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19576-8
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law; Cambridge Bioethics and Law; Cambridge Law, Medicine and Et; Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous