Bioethics in China’s Biosecurity Law: forms, effects, and unsettled issues

Author:

Wang Leifan1,Wang Fangzhong123,Zhang Weiwen123

Affiliation:

1. Tianjin University Law School, Tianjin, China

2. Center for Biosafety Research and Strategy, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

3. Laboratory of Synthetic Microbiology, School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Abstract

Abstract The Biosecurity Law has laid down a regulatory framework on bioethics in China, from raising awareness through education, requiring researchers to conform to ethical principles and conduct ethical reviews on biomedical research, to giving special attention to human genetic resources. The law constructively leaves a wide range of discretion to medical institutions and professionals in ethical decision-making, adaptive to the biotechnology-ethics-regulation dynamics. This regulatory strategy poses crucial institutional challenges in its implementation, particularly on how to safeguard institutional review boards (IRB), a core mechanism in the governance, to effectively protect human subjects but not unnecessarily hinder the progress of biomedical research. Further measures need to clarify important issues on the IRB-based governance, including legal status of the IRB review decision, potential liabilities, and protections of the IRB members.

Funder

National Key Research and Development Program of China

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Law,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous),Medicine (miscellaneous)

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