HUMAN-ANIMAL CHIMERAS: MIRACULOUS CHILD OF BIOTECHNOLOGY OR WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING?
HUMAN-ANIMAL CHIMERAS: MIRACULOUS CHILD OF BIOTECHNOLOGY OR WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING?
Author(s): Szymon BokotaSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: chimera; bioethics; personhood; subject of law; animal suffering;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents an impact and ethical-legal problems around interspecies organisms with both human and animal DNA – known as chimeras. While such beings can be considered useful from a medical point of view, important questions are raised concerning their consciousness, suffering and the acceptable borders of mixing human and animal genes, making this one of the most problematic aspects of modern bioethics. The research is divided into three topics: chimeras from a medical point of view; chimeras as a subject of law, and the ethical-legal aspects – chimeras as beings that suffer.
Journal: Зборник радова Међународни научни скуп „Изазови и перспективе развоја правних система у XXI вијеку"
- Issue Year: I/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 531-544
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
