MAPPING BIOETHICS: NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

Abstract

Draconian growth in terms of research and biological, medical or genetic techniques and their substantial impacts on humans have increased the risk of harming fundamental human rights. To counterbalance these threats, bioethics emerged as a new and genuine norm whereas it was initially a mere moral reflection. While the normativity of bioethics does not raise any doubt now, it is still noteworthy to underline that it has not yet reached completion. Hence, all around the world, courts are inclined to supplant the deliberate or unintentional legislature’s silence. This issue is definitely a burning and controversial one but it goes
far beyond the assigned topic of this paper. Currently, it is incumbent upon us to shed light on a significant part of the normative panorama of bioethics both at the international and national levels.