Ethical Justification of Managing Health Data Within Developmental Actions of European Union

Abstract

Endlessly changing European society actively faces ethical problems that transpire through every part of life. This article aims to present the problem of managing and utilizing medical data and proposes a concept for justifying these types of research and developmental activities from the perspective of the European Union. By selecting appropriate texts from different areas within philosophy and bioethics, the author aims to show a cohesive and innovative approach. He utilizes the concept of a social contract from the works of T. Hobbes in order to highlight the duties of humans toward their society and the liberties that are available to them. Moreover, the philosophical concepts of L. Floridi and A. Dawson help capture the modern problems and terminologies that try to explain the everchanging technological aspects of modern society.

Keywords

• european union
• biobanks
• medical data
• horizon europe
• european health data space
• ehds
• gpdr