Human Brain Organoid Research and Applications: Where and How to Meet Legal Challenges?

IF 1.8 3区哲学 Q2 ETHICS

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI:10.1007/s11673-024-10349-9

M Kataoka, T-L Lee, T Sawai

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Abstract

An ethical and legal framework is needed to regulate the rapidly developing human brain organoid research field properly. However, considering the legal issues involved in human brain organoid research remains underdeveloped and scattered. This article reviews the legal issues of human brain organoid research, grouping them into the following five broad themes: (1) consciousness, (2) legal status, (3) consent, (4) ownership, and (5) transplantation. The issues in each topic include both the urgent (e.g., appropriate forms of consent) and the speculative (e.g., protection of conscious human brain organoids). Therefore, we have attempted to be as explicit as possible about the timescale within which each issue will be realized and to prioritize each. Examining these issues has revealed legal issues specific to human brain organoid research and issues common to research in other fields. Further discussion of human brain organoid research from a legal perspective is needed in the future, considering discussions in related fields.

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人脑类器官的研究与应用：在哪里以及如何应对法律挑战？

要对快速发展的类人脑器官研究领域进行适当监管，需要一个伦理和法律框架。然而，对人脑类器官研究中涉及的法律问题的思考仍然不够深入和分散。本文回顾了类人脑器官研究的法律问题，将其归纳为以下五大主题：(1) 意识，(2) 法律地位，(3) 同意，(4) 所有权和 (5) 移植。每个主题中的问题既包括紧急问题（如同意的适当形式），也包括推测性问题（如保护有意识的人脑器官）。因此，我们试图尽可能明确每个问题实现的时间范围，并确定每个问题的优先次序。对这些问题的研究揭示了人脑类器官研究特有的法律问题和其他领域研究的共同问题。考虑到相关领域的讨论，今后需要从法律角度进一步讨论人脑类器官研究。

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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 医学-医学：伦理

CiteScore

5.20

自引率

8.30%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The JBI welcomes both reports of empirical research and articles that increase theoretical understanding of medicine and health care, the health professions and the biological sciences. The JBI is also open to critical reflections on medicine and conventional bioethics, the nature of health, illness and disability, the sources of ethics, the nature of ethical communities, and possible implications of new developments in science and technology for social and cultural life and human identity. We welcome contributions from perspectives that are less commonly published in existing journals in the field and reports of empirical research studies using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The JBI accepts contributions from authors working in or across disciplines including – but not limited to – the following: -philosophy- bioethics- economics- social theory- law- public health and epidemiology- anthropology- psychology- feminism- gay and lesbian studies- linguistics and discourse analysis- cultural studies- disability studies- history- literature and literary studies- environmental sciences- theology and religious studies