Ethical principles in european bioethics ano biolaw: autonomy, dignity, integrity ano vulnerability

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Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

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Toe main goal of this article is to discuss the episternological and practical features of the basic ethical principies in European bioethics and biolaw as a result of a relevant project supported by the European Commission between 1995 and 1998. That project was based on cooperation between 22 partners corning frorn most EU countries. Its aim was to identify the ethical principies relating to autonomy, dignity, integrity and vulnerability as four important ideas or values for European bioethics and biolaw. In this paper it will be showed how the author reaches the conclusion that the basic ethical principies cannot be understood as universal, everlasting ideas or transcendental truths but they rather function as "reflective guidelines", and important traditional values in European culture.

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Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

Professor titular, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Dinamarca. Pionero del bioderecho en el mundo. Autor, junto a Peter Kemp, del libro Basic Ethical Principies in European Bioethics and Biolaw, resultado de un trabajo mancomunado que convocó e integró a todos los países de la Comunidad Europea. Fue, junto a Kemp, el primer teórico en ofrecer un esbozo doctrinario para la disciplina. Habla y escribe danés, alemán, inglés y francés. Ha escrito y publicado artículos en los cuatro idiomas, y es miembro del comité que tiene a su cargo la organización del Congreso Mundial de Filosofía. Más allá de su trabajo en las áreas de la ética de los negocios, filosofía del derecho, y hermenéutica, es una voz mundialmente autorizada en el bioderecho. Miembro fundador de la International Network of Biolaw (www.internationalnetworkbiolaw.org), la organización académica de bioderecho más importante del mundo.

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