Bio-politics consists of the fields relevant to medical and bio-ethical policies so far studied by three disciplines as bio-ethics, medical economics and medical law. Its main objects of research are AID, IVF-ET, abortion, bio-medicine, organ transplantation and natural death/euthanasia.
Until now the criteria of bio-policy assessment are indefinite because of the inconsistencies between policies influenced by the varied opinion about people’s lifestyle and public order. The author argues that there should be a basic theory based on clear ideas and principles.
The proposed ideas here are freedom, symbiosis and nature which are put reciprocally in chequed and balanced relationship. Hence five principles of bio-policy are self-determination, restraint on intervention from government or medical science society, anti-eugenics, strong social support for the handicapped and limitation on the intervention of medical technologies into human body / life.
These principles lead to the minor principles such as legal guarantee of patient’s rights, promotion of people’s right to accsess to medical information and legal protection of the right of privacy. Ultimately you can choose some concrete policies such as ban on human gene engineering of reproductive cell, ban on surrogate mother etc. and levels or means of restriction ( by law, by guideline or self)
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