Abstract
The Human Genome Project constitutes an important contemporary health technology, but it is also a political and economical structure which of production and reproduction of a dominant concept of health. In this perspective, this research aims to discuss the question of the guarantee of autonomy and freedom of choice of the physical-biological patterns of the future generations, in a society in which those patterns are historically reproduced by power relations. For this reason, a methodology of analysis of the Human Genome Project is used in the context of the tension between constitutionalism and democracy, in order to establish an approximation between the contributions of Bioethics, Biolaw and Biopolitics, in the context of a critical perspective of our society. As a result we propose a reflection about the institutionalisation of public hearings articulated from a model of deliberative democracy.
Human Genome Project; Bioethics; Biolaw; Biopolitics; Deliberative democracy