Human Dignity and New Technologies. The Regulation of Genetic Engineering in the People’s Republic of China, between Traditional Values, Western Legal Models, and New Bioscience Horizons
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Abstract
Building upon the case of genome-edited babies as a starting point, this article examines the significance attached to human dignity within Chinese culture as a whole, and within the legal structure of the People’s Republic of China in particular. Through the application of legal comparison methodologies, it endeavours to determine whether there exists a uniquely ‘Chinese-characterised’ comprehension of the concept, how it influences, if at all, the regulation of emerging technologies, and what potential trajectories might emerge
Keywords
- Human dignity
- Chinese Law
- Gene-editing
- Law and Bioethics
