Presentation and PowerPoint - Carlos Andrés Barragan

Presentation and PowerPoint - Carlos Andrés Barragan
Comparative country experience

 

Case Study: Latin America

In this presentation I drew on recent events taking place in different Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) in order to situate general challenges set in motion by human biotechnologies in the region. Although a main concern still lingers around vulnerable populations and key aspects of scientific research and practice such as informed consent, new layers of complexity have been emerging as the production and consumption of
genetic information grows. Some of these layers are: the articulation of biotechnologies to pursue social justice and reparation; the reshaping of cultural, political, and biological identities both through the appropriation and contestation of human genetic information; and the question of governance, in some cases represented by the ambiguity, lack or excess of policies over a fast-changing set of scientific discourses and practices.