Bioethics, biolaw, and western legal heritage. Scope Note 45.

Towards an Integrated Approach to Basic Ethical Principles

From 1995 to 1998, the European Commission supported the “Basic Ethical Principles in European Bioethics and Biolaw” research project (1995–1998). The project was based on cooperation between 22 partners coming from most EU countries. Its aim was to identify the ethical principles relating to autonomy, dignity, integrity and vulnerability as four important ideas or values for a European bioethi...

Problems of Islamic Bioethics and Biolaw

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics

The concept of dignity is the foundation of fundamental rights expressed in international declarations on human rights and bioethics. Sometimes there are collisions of rights, which must be weighed. However, more often dignity is invoked in order to argue for or against the same issue. Is it possible that a concept can be so broad that it becomes meaningless? What do we mean when we argue for m...

Basic resources in bioethics: 1996-1999.

The staff of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) can think of no better way to prepare for a twenty-first century full of insightful bioethics texts than by compiling the following bibliography of print resources. Designed to complement Scope Note 15: Basic Resources in Bioethics ( Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1: 75-90, March 1991; reprinted as NRCBL Scope Note...

Making sense of dignity

In this review of Leon Kass’s Life, liberty and the defense of dignity and Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword’s Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. I consider the prospects for a theory of dignity as a basis for bioethics research. I argue that dignity theories are worth exploring in more detail, but that research needs to consider both ‘‘antitheory’’ accounts of the language of bioethics...