Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM (Aug 2017)

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE STEPS OF BIOETHICS

  • Nilo Henrique Reis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5902/1981369424336
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. 408 – 441

Abstract

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The present article seeks to reflect on the connections between bioethics and human dignity, mainly within the scope of scientific research. In this sense, it is understood that human dignity must be a right and, equally, an obligation among each other, a principle of responsibility that must be disseminated pedagogically between the sciences, the arts and the professions. In fact, the determining motive is the wellbeing of the collectivity, and this must be guaranteed by the legal system, and above that, it must become the moral content of the individual's action in their social relations. It is imperative to devise a perspective in which human values and biological knowledge can be produced with ethical engagement. This argument concretizes the bulk of this work by thinking of correlated obligations and the neglecting of these commitments to one another by the scientific community.

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