Bioetica și protecția demnității umane
Bioethics and protection of human dignity

Summary/Abstract: The recent developments in the field of biomedical sciences and technologies tend to confer Man an immediate and uncontrolled power of managing his own biologic individuality with major risks for the universal and defining values of the human being. The basic idea to be found in the international documents devoted to the defence of Man's dignity, as an individual and as a species, is that the development of biology and the correlated sciences should primarily be done in the service of Man and only secondly in the service of science. The author presents and thoroughly analyzes the Convention of Oviedo for the protection of human rights and dignity of the human being with regard to the application of biology and medicine, an international legal instrument taking into account the various ethical, social and legal aspects of their impact. She concludes that the most rapid progress of science is a pro for the rapid adoption of more precise rules, meant to cover both general situations and particular ones, when respect for the dignity of the human being and the human species is threatened.

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