XENOTRANSPLANTATION AND RISK by Sara Fovargue ( 9780521195768 )

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XENOTRANSPLANTATION AND RISK
REGULATING A DEVELOPING BIOTECHNOLOGY

By:

Sara Fovargue

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0521195764

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 November, 2011

Series:

Cambridge Law, Medicine & Ethics 14

Pages:

306

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

Synopsis:

Some developing biotechnologies challenge accepted legal and ethical norms because of the risks they pose. Xenotransplantation (cross-species transplantation) may prolong life but may also harm the xeno-recipient and the public due to its potential to transmit infectious diseases. These trans-boundary diseases emphasise the global nature of advances in health care and highlight the difficulties of identifying, monitoring and regulating such risks and thereby protecting individual and public health. Xenotransplantation raises questions about how uncertainty and risk are understood and accepted, and exposes tensions between private benefit and public health. Where public health is at risk, a precautionary approach informed by the harm principle supports prioritising the latter, but the issues raised by genetically engineered solid organ xenotransplants have not, as yet, been sufficiently discussed. This must occur prior to their clinical introduction because of the necessary changes to accepted norms which are needed to appropriately safeguard individual and public health.

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