12 articles in this issue
Sergio Zorrilla, Adelio Misseroni
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Francesco D’Agostino
This text proposes a series of observations and arguments that allow to suitably locate the challenge raised by bioethics to the law. Kelsen's model consisting in identifying the challenges of bioethics as simple problems of norm content, is postulated as... see more
María Casado González
Bioethics tends to recognize the plurality of moral options present in today's societies, impeling the need to establish minimum consents. The proceedings that will allow consensual decisions have fundamental importance. If there is no agreement, legislat... see more
Reinaldo Pereira e Silva
The purpose of this study is to investigate the statute of human life from conception on, finding a justification in the current complex political-juridical crisis, documented in a particularly emblematic way in the negligent attitude of legislation, incl... see more
Pedro Federico Hooft
This work analyzes, in the first part, the close and strong existing bonds between Bioethics and Law from the same dawn of birth of this new interdisciplinary liason, and the growing interweaving that takes place in the scientific community between Bioeth... see more
Enrique Varsi Rospigliosi
The author analyses a compared Constitutional Law, identifying 37 fundamental laws that include bioethic principles in their norms, such as the respect for human dignity in everything related to scientific investigation, genetic identity's protection, the... see more
Ana Victoria Sánchez Urrutia
There are many advantages due to genetic tests. But genetic information, if badly applied, may affect personal and family intimacy or even arouse discrimination. Therefore, data derived from a person's and his family's genome are confidential; these shoul... see more
Eduardo de Oliveira Leite
In this monograph, the author examines the existing relationship between the juridical and ethical scopes, emphasizing especially the present status of the subject in Brasil. Accordingly, he points out that Law, as an imperative norm, has found great diff... see more
Carlos María Romeo Casabona*
aw concerning the human genome and biotechnologies has moved slowly -especially in the scope of International Law- from a soft law (juridical norms not essentially compulsory or coercive, but rather exhortative), towards a Law characterized by obligatory ... see more
Ángela Vivanco Martínez
The author of this monograph analyses the resolutions pronounced by the House of Lords and by the EuropeanCourt of Human Rights in the case of Diane Pretty, an English citizen who died in may 2002. Because of a degenerative and incurable disease she prete... see more
Salvador Darío Bergel
The evolution of human genetics, from the fifties onwards, acted as a trigger for multiple fields, especially for those dealing with bioethics and law. Many of the advances accomplished may touch human dignity and, at the same time, they impel the creatio... see more