EVENIMENT - ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS: THE SUMMER SCHOOL FROM VIENNA, 12-18 JUNE 2017
ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS: THE SUMMER SCHOOL FROM VIENNA, 12-18 JUNE 2017

Summary/Abstract: Just by the fact that they gravitate towards issues related to the beginning and the end of life, the unprecedented achievements in the field of biotechno-logical medicine, which we experience today both with amazement and worry, raise countless questions of moral and ethical nature. The contemporary tech-nologies of procreation, genetic engi-neering, contraception, organ donation or euthanasia – in order to recall just some of them – aren’t, from a moral point of view, simple or neutral medical actions. On the contrary these often require the entire human involvement and they end up, not a few times, by confusing the human sensibilities at a personal or social level. This is the reason why, over the last decades, bio-ethics emerged as a new science whose task is to analyze and evaluate the ethi-cal implications of the advancements which were made possible by the appli-cation of the technological improve-ments in the medical field. At a global level, physicians, sociologists, psy-chologists or philosophers are invited in order to pronounce or to give rele-vant answers to the painful, bioethical disputed issues and which concerns directly or indirectly the value of the human life.

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