Biomedicine, the family and human rights / / edited by Marie-Therese Meulders-Klein, Ruth Deech and Paul Vlaardingerbroek.

• Author: Conference on Biomedicine, the Family and Human Rights St. Anne's College, University of Oxford)
• TeilnehmendeR: Meulders-Klein, Marie Therese.; Deech, Ruth.; Vlaardingerbroek, P. 1951-
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (651 p.)
• Notes: Conference proceedings.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1280468025; 9786610468027; 1417551496; 9047403037
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marie-Therese Meulders-Klein, Ruth Deech and Paul Vlaardingerbroek.

This volume examines the impact of advances in genetics and assisted reproduction technologies on family law, human rights and the rights of the child, including the effects of international treaties on national legislation. It surveys the theoretical, ethical and legal discussions with regard to biotechnology and family law issues and the search for a balance between safeguarding respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the need to ensure freedom of research. However, biotechnology impinges not only on isolated individuals and their rights, but also on unborn children, the family as a network of living relationships and the basic structure of any society, as well as the foundation of parentage and kinship, social organization as a whole and, finally, mankind itself. As the attention of the World turns to cloning, this book will contribute to the search for a balance between the rights and freedoms of born and yet to be born human beings and the quest for new technologies.