Salter Brian
Global Biopolitics Research Group, Edith Cavell Building, Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
Regen Med. 2007 May;2(3):301-11. doi: 10.2217/17460751.2.3.301.
As the recent experience of the European Patent Office graphically demonstrates, there is an inherent political tension between the individual ownership rights necessary for the operation of an international market in human embryonic stem cell science and the communal values of the many cultures in which such markets operate. This report examines the basis of the conflict between patenting and morality at national and international levels, the manifestation of those tensions in European patenting policy, and the contribution of bioethics to the attempt by European institutions to develop a governance response.
正如欧洲专利局最近的经历生动表明的那样，在人类胚胎干细胞科学国际市场运作所需的个人所有权与该市场所存在的多种文化的共同价值观之间，存在着内在的政治紧张关系。本报告审视了国家和国际层面专利与道德之间冲突的基础、这些紧张关系在欧洲专利政策中的表现，以及生物伦理学对欧洲机构制定治理对策的努力所做的贡献。
