| La Convenzione di Oviedo sui diritti dell’uomo e la biomedicina: verso una bioetica europea? |
| Fascicolo 2001-3 |
| Scritto da Piciocchi Cinzia |
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Sommario 1. Introduzione. – 2. Contenuti e meccanismi di funzionamento. – 3. I nodi della “bioetica europea”. – 3.1. Il dissenso nazionale. – 3.2. Il dissenso infranazionale. – 4. Il possibile ruolo della “bioetica europea”: l’esempio del consenso informato e della discriminazione genetica.
Abstracts The article takes as a starting point the debates surrounding the process of national ratifications of the “Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine” signed in Oviedo in 1997, in order to analyse the possibility of building a “European bioethics”. The difficulties of coming to a general agreement in some fields (such as, for example, research on human embryos) are demonstrated by the ambiguity of some statements, which mainly underline cultural differences among and within contracting States. Nevertheless, the Convention does have some positive features regarding for example individual protection against the misuse of genetic data or the importance given to informed consent. Such features may be presently regarded as possible foundations of a European bioethics, although restricted to a few selected areas, intended both as a safeguard for protecting the individual as well as for respecting national cultural diversities. |