Human Genome Research: Ethical and Legal Issues and Ways to Solve Them. Review of the Monograph “Law in the Era of the Genetic Revolution. Progress of Human Genomics from the Standpoint of the Legal Approach” by V. V. Lapaeva

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of the content of the monograph “Law in the Era of the Genetic Revolution. Progress of Human Genomics from the Standpoint of the Legal Approach” by V.V.Lapaeva. The reviewer gives a general description of the work and reveals the content of such subject areas of the book as protecting the rights of test patients and donors of biological material, stimulating national scientific and technological development, as well as preventing threats due to the uncontrolled use of human genome editing technologies. Particular attention is paid to the monograph’s coverage of the problems of Russian legislative policy in the field of human genome research and the author’s substantiation of the thesis that the creation of favorable legal conditions for the development of research in the field of human genome is impossible in isolation from the legal support for the development of Russian science as a whole.