What is it about?
Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers’ work has been characterized by interdisciplinary approaches. Her career has largely dealt with exploring the interplay between law and bioethics, a particularly complex challenge. So, centering on the theme of how both bioethics and the law treat the human seems most appropriate to pay tribute to her. In this chapter, we explore some normative challenges of combining bioethics and law approaches, and how the French bioethics laws have managed to reconcile them, between 1994 and 2024.
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Why is it important?
Laws are enacted through a parliamentary process intended to represent the will of the people; they are rules binding on concerned parties. Bioethics, in contrast, is aspirational and deliberative. Even if bioethics laws are considered as standards, the process by which rules are created stem from deliberations between many stakeholders. Analysing the relatiosn between Ethics and law is essential to understand the faremworks in place.
Perspectives
This publication is an analysis of the French case of the relations between bioethics and law, in the context of the work done over years on the topic by Prof. B.M. Knoppers
Anne Cambon-Thomsen
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This page is a summary of: Bioethics “Laws”: Paradox or Way of the Future?, November 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004688544_015.
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