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Xenotransplantation and risk : regulating a developing biotechnology /
"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-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139223522 1139223526 9781139026925 1139026925 1107223474 9781107223479 1280484772 9781280484773 9786613579751 6613579750 1139221817 9781139221818 1139220098 9781139220095 |