Bioethics and nursing - an overview

The constantly advancing development of medical knowledge, as well as the technology supporting it, gives rise to new, previously unknown ethical dilemmas. Codes of professional ethics, as well as current legislation, are usually helpful in solving them. However.

Human dignity and bioethics

Eighteenth-century declarations of human rights pointed to a Creator (the American Declaration of Independence) or a Supreme Being (the French Declaration of Human Rights) as their guarantors. The increasing secularisation of politics and culture has led human rights theorists to ...

Bioethics and faith

The problem of the relationship between bioethics and faith is complex when it concerns the Christian religion. It begins at the level of the relationship between philosophy and Christian philosophy and, more specifically, with the contentious question of whether philosophy can have a Christian character. In the light of ...