Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- The Right to Internet Access
- The Right to Be Forgotten
- Reproductive Rights
- Genetic Rights
- 26 The Relevance of Human Rights for Dealing with the Challenges Posed by Genetics
- 27 The Challenge of Genetics
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
26 - The Relevance of Human Rights for Dealing with the Challenges Posed by Genetics
from Genetic Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- The Right to Internet Access
- The Right to Be Forgotten
- Reproductive Rights
- Genetic Rights
- 26 The Relevance of Human Rights for Dealing with the Challenges Posed by Genetics
- 27 The Challenge of Genetics
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
Summary
Human rights have an internal dynamism which leads them to cover all new areas in which the most fundamental human goods are at risk. In this regard, human rights have been metaphorically compared to ‘an overflowing river that floods down across the valley, making the fields ever more fertile’. One area in which human rights have recently shown their ‘fertilising’ force is genetics, particularly a number of issues relating to genetic testing and the increasing access to personal genetic information.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human RightsRecognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, pp. 335 - 349Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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