Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tham, Joseph (Editor), Garcia, Alberto (Editor), Miranda, Gonzalo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advancing Global Bioethics, 2
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Religious Studies, general.

With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal int...