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Ochrona prawna genomu ludzkiego
Legal protection of human genome

Author(s): Teresa Gardocka
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Naczelna Izba Lekarska
Keywords: genetic integrity of human;interventions in the human genome;informed consent, heritable genetic variation;Code of Medical Ethics

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to Chapter 2b of the Medical Code of Ethics, entitled „The human genome”. The Chapter comprises only one regulation, Art. 51h. The author refers in detail to the issue ofthe human genome protection, invoking the principles stipulated in the Bioethical Convention,and restated in the Medical Code of Ethics. The article also points to the parliamentary bill onthe protection of the human genome and embrione of 2015, as well as to the Universal Declarationon the Human Genome and Human Rights of 11.11.1997.

  • Issue Year: 7/2015
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 47-52
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish