Genetic Information and Individual Rights

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Genetic Information and Individual Rights is written by Francisco Miguel Bombillar Sáenz and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3882463805 (ISBN 10) and 9783882463804 (ISBN 13).

The present book is one of the outputs of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Rights and Science", established at the Department of Experimental Medicine of the University of Perugia. The Centre bring scholars from several universities who deal with legal and societal social context of the scientific research. The work is focused on ethical and legal issues concerning the collection, the storage and other kinds of genetic data processing, especially within research and biomedical activities. The theoretical and practical interest on these topics depends on the features of genetic information and on the potential threats to fundamental rights of the natural persons which may arise from research and therapeutic activities in genetics. Other ethical issues also arise with respect to genetic information concerning animal and plants. This from the viewpoints of the environment protection environment and in order to avoid the illegitimate exploitation of the genetic resources. Such issues should be considered within the complex and multilevel legal context, established by the European Union (with reference to the European Charter of the European Union and the EU legislation and praxis), by Members States and within international legal instruments. The essays included in the book aims at showing some among the main bio-legal aspects of activities on genetic information.