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The approach of law to science and technology’s conflicts is not an easy task. Its answers to the problem have often been to assume the emerging social relations, to regulate normatively or to recognize judicially those relations as well as to introduce new axiological principles through their own normative (i.e., legal or judicial, in terms of the structure of the various legal systems ). This phenomenon has been more exceptional and usually comes from a bioethical reflection. Much has been written about the concept of bioethics and its incardination within applied ethics . However, very little progress has been made in shaping biolaw as a legal discipline. At most, it has been assumed as a mere terminological update of the classic term “medical law ” or “health law”, even without distinguishing well both concepts from each other. However, biolaw is more than that, and so it must be understood. It does not correspond solely and exclusively to the set of norms dealing with issues related to the life sciences , but it goes further. Thus, this chapter is a proposal for the foundation of biolaw as an autonomous juridical discipline.
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Romeo Casabona, C.M., Romeo Malanda, S. (2019). Approach to Biolaw as an Autonomous Juridical Discipline. In: Valdés, E., Lecaros, J. (eds) Biolaw and Policy in the Twenty-First Century. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 78. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05903-3_5
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