Contemporary Risks of Development of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine: International Law Regulation of Risk Mitigation

There is a need for an inter-disciplinary scientific discussion about the nature of a human being and the strategy of legal mediation of relations arising between states and other participants of international life in the sphere of contemporary innovative medicine. The international law and practice and national laws have no unified general understanding of the strategy of such development of technologies, extent of their application without damage to a specific human and the future generations. The author acknowledges the general goal to preserve humans as such (as a species) and points out the acute need to develop an international law concept common for all parties to international relations to determine borders and limits of allowed research in the sphere of genetics and biomedicine and the extent of practical application of respective results.