Hendriks A
Med Law. 1997;16(3):557-65.
The United States of America and the European Countries have responded quite differently to the to the human rights of candidate workers as imposed by genetic and predictive health testing. Whereas the United States traditionally relies largely on the non-discrimination principle, the European countries seem to attach more value to the right to privacy and the principle of social justice. A recently published communication of the Commission of the European Communities seems to bridge these two legal traditions.
美利坚合众国和欧洲国家对基因和预测性健康检测所带来的求职者人权问题的反应截然不同。美国传统上主要依赖非歧视原则,而欧洲国家似乎更重视隐私权和社会正义原则。欧洲共同体委员会最近发表的一份来文似乎弥合了这两种法律传统之间的差距。