HUMAN DIGNITY, (BIO)MEDICINE AND GNR (GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ROBOTICS) REVOLUTION: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND LAW

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  • João Carlos Simões Gonçalves Loureiro University of Coimbra

Abstract

The article focuses on the connection between human dignity and biomedicine. The first part grapples, inter alia, with a set of objections against human dignity: its useless character, its deficit of universality or inclusiveness. In the second part the connection between human dignity and (bio)medicine is highlighted. After ruling out the non-intersection relations, the following topics are considered: legal entitlement (of all human beings); parametricity (the need for a multilevel approach, including the world level and the European level); some juridical stands on dignity and "the new rights"; the twofold role of biomedicine, as promoter of, or as a threat to human dignity. An additional part deals with post-humans, cyborgs in particular. The conclusion states that present-day "liquid times" of "liberal eugenics" and GNR (genetics, nanotechnology, robotics) technologies inevitably raise concerns regarding the role of (bio)ethics in such a field, and the chances thereof.

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Published

2016-05-09

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Gonçalves Loureiro, J. C. S. (2016). HUMAN DIGNITY, (BIO)MEDICINE AND GNR (GENETICS, NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ROBOTICS) REVOLUTION: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND LAW. IUS ET SCIENTIA, 2(1), 163–178. Retrieved from https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ies/article/view/13218

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)

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