EU先端医療研究政策と生命倫理 -ヒトES細胞をめぐるバイオポリティクス-

Abstract

The globalization of medical research and the application of biotechnology are presenting us with a wide range of economic and ethical issues. This paper will examine the controversies surrounding biomedical research policy and bio-ethics in the EU and its Member States with particular emphasis on the ethical raised by human embryonic stem-cell research from the viewpoint of “bio-politics”. It is essential to ensure that moral value as well as economic merits are reflected in public policy making.This paper focuses on bio-medical research, and analyzes many ethical issues involving human embryonic stem cell. And policy issues from a viewpoint of bio-politics technology by embryonic stem cell research an example also in the EU science and technology policies.It is necessary to also make moral value reflect in a public policy simultaneously with economic merit. Society does desire of the progress of medical and technology, and although it is common profits for civil society, various ethical problems exist in adaptation of the technology. Moreover, medical and technological research and the medical service itself are realized to be industries, and the economic earnings are pursued in many cases. However, since commercializing and dealing in human internal organs and ovum is greatly concerned also with the dignity of the economic discrepancy in domestic and international society, and a human being, international regulation of the suitable control to these tip life medical and technological development research policy and the EU level is demanded. Medical research must be evaluated not only from the financial side but from an ethics side about influence on the society. In order to perform a medical technical policy on the EU level, it is necessary to obtain an understanding of the European citizen's policy, and the transparency of a policy and reservation of accountability are indispensable. It is very useful to aim at adjustment of the sense of ethics in the EU level and policy harmonization in the Member States by Open Method of Co-ordination.The framework of carrying out control by social regulations to an advanced medical and technical policy by performing an ethical fixed value judgement can be said that the meaning which EU showed is very large.