New Medical Technology and Human Dignity

• Authors: Yotov Stilian
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

First I discuss the rights as unavoidable part of the human dignity. There are four possible relations: dignity has a wider extension, the volume of both is equivalent, dig-nity includes in itself a bundle of rights, or it is just a simple right. There are good rea-sons to support the last two, even the last position. Then I evaluate some of the chal-lenging innovations in the medical technology, if they are acceptable in front of this close connection. The focus falls on three topics: PGD, cloning, and fusion of human-animal cells. Using moral principles such as non discrimination and non instrumentali-zation I look for some normative framing.

Keywords

EN

human dignity and rights; consensus; respect; humiliation; embryo selection; clone; hybrid; chimera

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 251-263

Contributors

author

Yotov Stilian

• Saint Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia