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The dynamic development of biology, medicine and technology is one of the main reasons for the ethical reflection on interference with the natural processes of life, which has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field - bioethics. This approach combines scientific knowledge with the values of ...

There is still no single clear answer to the question of at what point in the development of human life we can speak of a human being. It is not obvious to everyone that a new human being begins to exist at the moment of conception. Treating the prenatal period as a phase in which, according to ...

The study covers the scope of the concept and the meaning and development of bioethics, its impact on social life as well as on other areas of human life. The arguments for the development of medical science and the use of new therapeutic methods are presented, as well as...

The aim of this article is to attempt a natural approach based on the categories of bioethics, namely the quality of life, the value of human life and the sanctity of life (the quality of life constitutes its sanctity). Through an in-depth analysis of the biological aspect of right and wrong and...

Man is now confronted with ethical problems which hitherto ethics either failed to recognise at all or, if it did, made no serious attempt to resolve. The role of medicine (and thus the importance of the problems associated with it in...

Bioethical debates usually take the form of discussions on very specific issues that arise at the interface between biomedical science and ethics. Emerging new scientific discoveries as well as technological possibilities demand - sometimes very insistently - rapid...

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.

Man is now confronted with ethical problems which hitherto ethics either failed to recognise at all or, if it did, made no serious attempt to resolve. The role of medicine (and thus the importance of the lesser related ...

Bioethics addressed to enlightened citizens of different cultures can contribute to making people aware that excessive health expectations directed at society cannot be fulfilled for objective reasons. People seem to overlook that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The article addresses the validity of the division between Catholic bioethics and lay bioethics, describing their interdependence, differences and the nature of the dispute over the issues that distinguish them. Bioethical disputes are one of the many categories of disputes that are part of the life ...

This article provides an overview of the research issues addressed in bioethics. The basic sections of bioethical reflection are characterised: medical ethics, ethics of transplant surgery, ethics of genetic engineering, thanatology, ethics of...

Just as developments in scientific research in astronomy and physics have challenged the anthropocentric view of the world, modern developments in biology have dealt a blow to the anthropocentric view of nature, helped by both evolutionary theory and the discovery of a common...

Bioethics is one of the issues that is at the centre of today's world. New technology and information technology have led to scientific discoveries on an unprecedented scale, making it possible to intervene in the lives of individuals and entire societies. They can contribute ...