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Vol. 54 No. 1 (2005)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2005.408

Dignity of the person in the light of international biomedical law

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dignità umana, diritto internazionale, genoma umano, UNESCO / human dignity, international law, human genome, UNESCO

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Roberto Andorno
roberto.andorno@uni-tuebingen.de
Member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee; Research Fellow at the Interdepartmental Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen, Germany.
L'emergente diritto internazionale della biomedicina adotta la nozione di dignità umana come principio fondamentale che deve guidare ogni attività biomedica. La Dichiarazione universale sul genoma umano e i diritti umani dell'UNESCO è il migliore esempio di questo fenomeno. Lo scopo di quest'articolo è quello di presentare le due dimensioni della dignità umana contenute nella Dichiarazione UNESCO: la dignità dell'individuo e la dignità dell'umanità.
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The emerging international biomedical law adopts the notion of human dignity as the fundamental principle that should guide every biomedical practice. The UNESCO Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights is the best example of this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to present the two dimensions of human dignity that are covered by the UNESCO Declaration: the dignity of the individual and the dignity of humanity.

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Dignity of the person in the light of international biomedical law. (2005). Medicina E Morale, 54(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2005.408

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