Normative Foundations of Technology Transfer and Transnational Benefit Principles in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

The United Nations Scientific, Education, and Cultural Organization Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) expresses in its title and substance a controversial linkage of two normative systems: international human rights law and bioethics. The UDBHR has the status of what is kno...

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Published in:The Journal of medicine and philosophy 2009-06, Vol.34 (3), p.296-321
Main Authors: Faunce, Thomas Alured, Nasu, Hitoshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioethical Issues - legislation & jurisprudence
Bioethics
cosmopolitanism
Diffusion of Innovation
Human Rights - legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
International Cooperation
international human rights
Morals
Politics
principlism
technology transfer
transnational benefit
United Nations
United Nations - legislation & jurisprudence
United Nations - organization & administration
virtue ethics
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Summary:The United Nations Scientific, Education, and Cultural Organization Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) expresses in its title and substance a controversial linkage of two normative systems: international human rights law and bioethics. The UDBHR has the status of what is known as a “nonbinding” declaration under public international law. The UDBHR's foundation within bioethics (and association, e.g., with virtue-based or principlist bioethical theories) is more problematic. Nonetheless, the UDBHR contains socially important principles of technology transfer and transnational benefit (articles 14, 15, and 21). This paper is one of the first to explore how the disciplines of bioethics and international human rights law may interact in the UDBHR to advance the policy relevance and health impact of such principles. It investigates their normative ancestry in the UDBHR, as well as relevant conceptual differences between bioethics and public international law in this respect, and how these may be relevant to their conceptual evolution and application.
ISSN:0360-5310
1744-5019
DOI:10.1093/jmp/jhp021