Bioethics and Basic Rights: Persons, Humans, and Boundaries of Life

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This article explores the connections between bioethics and basic rights partly by analyzing the basic legal norms of bioethics, and partly by comparing thematic cases from the jurisdictions of the European Court of Human Rights and the US Supreme Court, as well as some cases from other jurisdictions. It focuses on two major lines of thought in contemporary bioethics: the first is concerned with the boundaries of life (e.g., issues of embryo research, assisted reproduction, and end of life decisions) and the second is related to the contemporary exploration of the frontiers of the human body (issues such as the use of human tissues and human DNA for research and other purposes).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law
EditorsMichel Rosenfeld, András Sajó
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages1142–1162
ISBN (Electronic)9780191751967
ISBN (Print)9780199578610
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Nov 2012

Keywords

  • Basic rights
  • Bioethics
  • European Court of Human Rights
  • Human body
  • Human rights
  • Life
  • US Supreme Court

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