conference proceedings of congress International Bioethics 1999. Bioethics and dignity in a pluralistic society

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Foreword
Ana Marta González

lecture Inaugural
Georges B. Kutukdjian

I. Introduction
II. The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
III. Conclusions

Part I
Bioethical Issues at the Beginning of Human Life

Human dignity, topic bioethics
Francesco D'Agostino

I. Meaning of the term "dignity
II. Dignity as an indispensable concept for thinking about bioethics
III. Is the basis in dignity staff or in the "accompanying ethical values"?
IV. Italian bioethics in the face of this dilemma
V. Pragmatic bioethics
VI. Bioethics, autonomy of science and relational bioethics
VII. The need for continuous "resemanticisation" of the concept of dignity

The human embryo: biological, anthropological and legal status
Livio Melina

I. A decisive question for human identity and social life
II. Respect for every person, the foundation and criterion of a just society
III. Recognising the Ethical Good of the Human Embryo as a Person
IV. Biological Perspectives on the Human Embryo
V. Uniqueness staff of the human embryo
VI. The Fundamental Ethical-Legal Principle and its Normative Implications
VII. Conclusion

New reproductive technologies and Catholic teaching
William May

I.- New reproductive technologies

1.- Artificial insemination

1. Artificial insemination
2. In vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer
3. Alternative technologies using male and female gametic cells

2.- Cloning or agametic reproduction

II.- teaching of the church on reproductive technologies

1. The teaching of Pope Pius XII (+1958)
2. The teaching of the Donum Vitae
3. Reflections on cloning

III.- An ethical and theological assessment of the new reproductive technologies

Ethical/philosophical reasons why non-marital ways of generating human life are immoral.

1. Marriage rights and capacities, the marriage act and the generation of human life
2. Procreation versus reproduction

The basic theological reason why human life must be given only in the act of marriage.

IV.- "Assisted" insemination/fertilisation

Some basic criteria

2. Some specific procedures

1. Tubal transfer leave Egg transfer (TTBO)
2. Gamete-to-fallopian tube transfer (GIFT) and tubal transfer of the egg with sperm (TTOE)

V. Conclusion

Bureau of work I:

Bioethics at the beginning of human life
Marina Camps

Part II
Some Bioethical Issues in the Human Life Course

The project genome and engineering Genetics from a human rights perspective
Ángela Aparisi

I. Introduction

II. Biotechnology and human dignity

III. project Human Genome

1. Origins and current status
2. Information issues Genetics

IV. Engineering Genetics

1. Somatic gene therapy
2. Germline manipulation Genetics

V. Human cloning

Transplant ethics
Hans Thomas

I. Brain death: criteria for organ removal or human death?
II. The discussion preceding the transplantation law in Germany
III. Brain death: knowledge or convention?
IV.Philosophy or experience?
V. Brain death between life and death - a tertium comparationis?
VI. Ethical Implications for Transplant Medicine

Bioethics and conscientious objection
Gérard Mémeteau

I.- The need for a conscience clause

1. The emergence of threats
2. Bioethics as a threat?

II - The means of the conscience clause

1. The clause recognised
2. Sources of law

Table of work II
Some bioethical problems in the human lifespan
José López Guzmán

Part III
Problems at the end of human life

Determining the time of death: new evidence, new controversies
Alan Shewmon

I. Greetings

II. pathway staff

1. First defence of brain death and "neocortical death".
2. First turning point: the withdrawal of "neocortical death".
3. Second turning point: the withdrawal of the "death of the whole brain".

III. Empirical evidence for an organism as a whole at brain death

1. Fallacy of necessarily imminent asystole
2. Litany of integrative functions
3. Somatic physiological equivalence to high spinal cord transection

IV. What, then, is death?

V. What difference does it make?

Euthanasia and the dignity of dying
Gonzalo Herranz

I. Introduction

II. The dominant interpretations of the idea of dignity when talking about the dignity of death

1. The Dignity of Dying in the Pro-Life Context

• Religious tradition
• The culture of human rights
• The ethical-deontological rules and regulations of Medicine
• Bioethical reflection

2. The universal condemnation of therapeutic incarceration, an attack on the dignity of the dying person.

3. Dignity of Dying in the Pro-Euthanasia Context

III. The special human dignity in the trance of terminal illness and the dying process

Euthanasia and politics
Andrés Ollero

Bureau of work III
Problems at the end of human life (summary)
[Complete transcript].
Antonio Pardo

Conclusions
Susana Aulestiarte

Closing ceremony