Genetic discrimination and personality rights: problems and solutions

  • Ana Cláudia Pirajá Bandeira UEM
  • Tatiane Botura Scariot UEM

Abstract

Nowadays, genetic biology is the scientific area that has developed the most, especially due to the Human Genome Project, conferring a new biotechnological appearance to this century. On the one hand, the new biomedical discoveries and achievements nurture humanity’s hope of eliminating incurable diseases in order to increase human life with improved quality. On the other hand, at the same time that science brings countless benefices, it also introduces new ethical-juridical problems related to personality rights, such as the questions of genetic discrimination and violation of genetic intimacy. Thus, it emerges the need for social control, through a more actuating right capable of satisfactorily protecting human dignity and other personality rights against genetic manipulations.

Author Biographies

Ana Cláudia Pirajá Bandeira, UEM
Professora assistente na Universidade Estadual de Maringá e Mestre em Direito Civil pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá - UEM
Tatiane Botura Scariot, UEM
Formanda no curso de Direito da Universidade Estadual de Maringá - UEM
Published
2007-08-01
Section
Doutrinas