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A Proposal for Modernizing the Regulation of Human Biotechnologies
Author(s) -
FURGER FRANCO,
FUKUYAMA FRANCIS
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2007.0053
Subject(s) - bioethics , status quo , reproduction , law and economics , law , environmental ethics , state (computer science) , intersection (aeronautics) , political science , sociology , philosophy , genetics , biology , engineering , computer science , aerospace engineering , algorithm
The technologies at the intersection of assisted reproduction and genetics call for a new regulatory approach, say Franco Furger and Francis Fukuyama, authors of the recent report Beyond Bioethics. In the essay below they map out their recommendation. In the following essays, James Fossett argues that regulation is likelier—and would be better—at the state level, Leonard Fleck calls for more robust public involvement, and John Robertson recommends sticking with the status quo. Turning from procedural to substantive issues, Josephine Johnston takes up Furger and Fukuyamas suggestion that children have a right to a traditional genetic parentage.