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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 ...

Bioethics is a discipline that combines the natural sciences (biology, medicine) with the moral sciences of human behaviour (ethics). Bioethics began to develop in the field of ecology, so it emerged primarily as a discipline of environmental protection and behaviour....

The work signals selected bioethical aspects related to human dying, such as the problem of the definition of death and issues of euthanasia in relation to the issue of persistent therapy. The reflections are taken up on the basis of the work's key and point...

In 1995, the University of Notre Dame Publishing House published a book by the American ethicist and theologian, Gilbert C. Meilaender, entitled Soul, Body and Bioethics 1. The author of the book is clearly disappointed with the style of the debates taking place in the field of contemporary bioethics....

On 10 June 2016, the Ombudsman's Office hosted an interdisciplinary scientific conference entitled. "Selected aspects of human rights and bioethics", organised in cooperation with the Committee on Bioethics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It resulted in a monograph...

On 5-6 February 2010, the International Scientific Conference on Bioethics in Medical Practice was held at the Medical University of Lublin. The conference brought together representatives from many disciplines, reflecting the nature of bioethics itself - a discipline with...

Increased knowledge and technological progress remain factors that expand the possibilities of medicine, but also generate new ethical issues. Their resolution may encounter some difficulties. To the questions: "when does human life begin?", or "when does human ...

Are drug manufacturers inventing new diseases? Can science work for profit? What distinguishes conflicts of interest from corruption? The author outlines these and other controversial practices in the pharmaceutical industry. She writes about reprehensible forms of commercialisation of knowledge, lobbying by companies ...

In a simple and accessible question-and-answer format, the book addresses the fundamental ethical issues related to the beginning and end of human life (definition of the beginning of life, contraception, abortion, artificial insemination, euthanasia, assisted suicide, therapy...

"The monograph presented here addresses the need for an in-depth analysis of the problem of whether a pharmacist can produce and/or distribute pharmaceuticals that strike at the basic ethos of medicine, which is to treat, or at least not harm, the patient. The pharmacist is not...