Naujųjų technologijų įtaka sveikatos teisei

Abstract

In contemporary health care, the right to share scientific advancement and its benefits becomes part of human right to health. Scientific progress and development (technologies) serve the development of human personality, promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, however, this progress in the area of health entails both benefits and risks. Hence, the technological progress, which is naturally ahead of law, brings along new challenges, which imply the need for research to look for harmonious interaction opportunities for these fields in the context of legal regulation challenges of the interaction between new technologies and health. This dissertation research aims at identifying and assessing the systematic effects of new technologies on health law with reference to the conception of positive health. In implementing the research tasks, the dissertation proves that the challenges of legal regulation inherent in the integration of new technologies into the health area may be resolved by using the conception of positive health as a theoretical basis, according to which dynamism, holism and personal engagement as well as the principles developing on their basis form the criterion for the legal regulation of innovative effects of the new technologies that ensure fundamental human rights.