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Revista de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas
Print version ISSN 0120-3886
Abstract
SPINELLA, Liliana. Humanity: A subject to claim rights. Human dignity facing the patenting of human genetic information. Rev. Fac. Derecho Cienc. Polit. - Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2012, vol.42, n.116, pp.297-328. ISSN 0120-3886.
One of the most important implications of the Human Genome Project was the acceleration of the patenting of living organisms as well as of human genetic information in the context of progress in biotechnology and biomedicine. Facing this situation, the international community has not remained indifferent. It provoked the creation of documents such as the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights issued by UNESCO, the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine drafted by the Council of Europe, and the Gijón Bioethics Declaration created by the International Society of Bioethics. In short, the aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of "human dignity" in relation to "humanity" and the human genome.
Keywords : human genome; human dignity; humanity; patent; heritage of humanity.