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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Bioethics

Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
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April 2016

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Civil society — Dignity and autonomy of individuals — Euthanasia — Individual rights — Limitations on rights — Fundamental rights

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1. 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 Potter...
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