Bioethics

Bioethics

In relation to the bioethics and constitutional law, Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor[1] made the following observation: Bioethics is a discipline concerned with studying and resolving challenges within the life sciences as understood in a broad sense. Its most important aim is to monitor biopractices which might undermine the values or conditions that underlie all versions of what is termed a moral community (Brownsword 25) and to provide a practical framework for ethical decision-making. This is achieved by monitoring with reference to various sources, including philosophy, religion, history and law (Schaller 1, 6). The term bioethics was coined in 1970 by Van Rensselaer (…)

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Notes and References

1. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor, “Bioethics” (2018, Germany, United Kingdom)

See Also

• Civil society
• Dignity of Individuals
• Autonomy of Individuals
• Euthanasia
• Individual rights
• Limitations on rights
• Fundamental rights

Further Reading

• Brooke A. Ackerly, Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (2008)
• Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes and Anita Silvers (eds), Physician Assisted Suicide (1998)
• Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress, Principles Biomedical Ethics (6th edn, 2008)
• Violeta Beširević, Euthanasia: Legal Principles and Policy Choices (2006)
• Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword, ‘Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Human Genetics’ (1998) 61 Modern Law Review 661
• Jasper A. Bovenberg, Property Rights in Blood, Genes and Data (2006)
• Marcia C. Inhorn (ed), Reproductive Disruptions (2007)
• Sheila Jasanoff, ‘Biology and the Bill of Rights: Can Science Reframe the Constitution?’ (1987–88) 13 American Journal of Law and Medicine 249
• Graeme Laurie, Genetic Privacy (2002)
• Christian Lenk, Judit Sándor, and Bert Gordijn (eds), Biobanks and Tissue Research (2011)
• Dominique Manaϯ, ‘La procréation médicalement assistée en droit suisse: Verité sur la conception et l’identité; du donneur de gamètes’ in Brigitte Feuillet-Liger (ed), Procréation médicalement assistée et anononymat (2008)
• Warren Thomas Reich, ‘The “Wider View”: André Hellegers’s Passionate, Integrating Intellect and the Creation of Bioethics’ (1999) 9 Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 25
• John A. Robertson, ‘Procreative Liberty and Harm to Offspring in Assisted Reproduction’ (2004) 30 American Journal of Law and Medicine 2
• Jürgen Robienski and Jürgen Simon, ‘Recent Development in the Legal Discourse on Genetic Testing in Germany’ in Andre den Exter (ed), Human Rights and Biomedicine (2010)
• Nicolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself (2007)
• Barry R. Schaller, Understanding Bioethics and the Law (2008)
• Richard F. Storrow, ‘The Bioethics of Prospective Parenthood: In Pursuit of the Proper Standard for Gatekeeping in Infertility Clinics’ (2007) 28 Cardozo Law Review 2283