BIOETHICS AND PERSONALITY RIGHTS
BIOETHICS AND PERSONALITY RIGHTS

Summary/Abstract: Personality rights are rights inherent to the quality of human person belonging to any individual by the very fact that it is human. They relate mainly to the physical and moral protection of the human being, to its individuality or personality. In the current era, personality rights are seriously threatened by the scientific developments of biology and medicine.A person's right over its own body knows limitations imposed by the need to respect public order and morality, its measure being given by law. Prohibition of commercialization of the human body or parts of it is expressly provided in the French law on bioethics and in the European Convention on Human Rights and on Biomedicine adopted by the Council of Europe.The right to life, the right to health, the right to physical and mental integrity, the right to dispose of himself are laid down in the new Civil Code and are the first concerned by research on human subjects. In the bioethical context, these rights are emphasized particularly in the case of interventions on genetic characters, examinations of genetic characters and medical interventions on humans.

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