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Crisis caused by the development of biotechnology and legislative response

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2010, 6(2), pp.214-228
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

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1충북대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Biotechnology is all the technology activities which are studied the phenomena of life and used the characteristics of it to enhance human welfare. Depending on the development of biotechnology, it is expected to be a key which can solve all human diseases, starvation, environmental pollution problems and etc, but at the same time it has many risks harmful to the human being. Those are the risk of human cloning, discrimination in employment and insurance due to misuse․abuse of genetic information, the risk of human health and environment caused by GMO(Genetically Modified Organisms), etc. In many major countries including Korea, they have been making legislative regulations to remove and prevent those biotechnology's risks. We should legislate to ban the application of biotechnology in principle. But considering the positive aspects of it, the exception should be allowed in the limited range to promotive human welfare. The development of biotechnology is fast and it is difficult to predict the risks. Therefore, the appropriate legislative regulations through careful observation and evaluation of international legislations are required. Only when we make national and social efforts to enforce legislative regulations, we ensure the safety of biotechnology and mark the progress of it.

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