INROADS- An International Journal of Jaipur National University

  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1and2

An analytical study of biomedicine and international human rights law and issues there in

  • Author:
  • Sheikh Inam Ul Mansoor1,*, Govind Yadav2,**
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Published Online: Feb 28, 2024
  • Page Number: 61 to 68

1Assistant Professor, Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

2Assistant Professor, Seedling School of Law and Governance, Jaipur National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract

Recent international legal instruments on biomedicine have embraced a human rights framework, which seems to be the best method to deal with global bioethical challenges. Introduction study shows that bioethics and human rights are now well-established norms, practices, institutions and techniques for regulating the life sciences and medicine in public domain for well-established. The incorporation of bio-ethical concepts into a human rights framework is one of the primary elements of the new legal field “Biomedicine and international human rights law.” An ethical context for medical practice is provided by human rights. Whether or if this paradigm gives obvious answers to ethical challenges is up for debate? Biological and medical research has created scientific achievements in the health area, but it has also raised problems about a number of essential values, such as the person, the family, health, private life, and human rights and dignity in the second section of the study paper. Finally, with regards to using conventional medicine or revolutionary medical treatments, the study emphasizes human dignity and essential human rights (genetics, human cloning, medically assisted procreation, clinical research, organ transplantation etc.) Finally, the study seeks to determine how the aforementioned methods are safeguarded by medical ethics and legislation. Researchers want to be free to do research while still being protected from harm, and the EU is working to achieve this goal. Even yet, the process of safeguarding experimental human subjects’ human rights continues to progress today because to the World Medical Association’s adoption of the Helsinki Declaration. Human rights and biomedicine, for example, state that forced treatment of mental patients is only permitted if the patient’s health would be jeopardized without it.

Keywords

Analytical study, Biomedicine, International human rights law