Historians are right to see American bioethics of the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reaction to powerful new medical technologies in the hands of medical paternalists who disregarded the wishes of their patients. The main strategy to combat this inexplicable power was to empower patients with the doctrine of informed consent (sometimes called autonomy and placed under the broader rubric of respect for the person). The international approach to human rights is also consistent with Kant's views on enlightenment in the context of the whole species
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of humanity, all members of which "have an interest in the preservation of the whole", raising the hope that "after many revolutions of reform, Nature's supreme goal - a universal cosmopolitan state, a womb in which all the original capacities of the human species will develop - will finally be realised. "
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