scholarly journals Diretivas antecipadas da vontade. Uma reflexão bioética à luz da moral cristã

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (300) ◽  
pp. 809
Author(s):  
Maria Emília de Oliveira Schpallir Silva
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Advance Directives ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Natural Death ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
Advance Health Care Directive

Síntese: Este trabalho de pesquisa tem por objetivo fazer uma reflexão bioética sobre as Diretivas Antecipadas da Vontade à luz da moral cristã e da Doutrina do Magistério da Igreja, em vista da dignidade humana, nas questões relativas à terminalidade da vida. Para tanto, parte de uma reflexão sobre dignidade humana, direito à vida e autonomia, na perspectiva da doutrina cristã católica e conclui que apenas dentro de um contexto de profundo respeito pelo ser humano, o que inclui o respeito pela vida humana, desde a concepção até a morte natural, as Diretivas Antecipadas da Vontade podem vir a constituir-se uma opção ética, não entrando em conflito com a moral católica.Palavras-chave: Diretivas antecipadas. Bioética. Magistério da Igreja Católica.Abstract: This paper aims to make a bioethical reflection on Advance Health Care Directive under the perspective of Christian morality and the Catholic Church’s Magisterium doctrine, in view of human dignity in matters relating to life termination. Therefore, it starts reflecting on human dignity, right to life and autonomy in the Catholic Christian doctrine perspective and concludes that only within a context of deep respect for the human being, which includes respect for human life from conception to natural death, advance directives may constitute an ethical option that does not conflict with Catholic moral.Keyword: Advance directives. Bioethics. Catholic Church’s Magisterium

Challenging some myths about the right to life at the end of life. 1: Not an absolute right

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wicks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Health Care Context ◽  
The Right

This article, and a related one in the next issue, investigates some myths surrounding the application of the right to life at the end of life. The present article focuses upon the myth that the right to life is an absolute right, always requiring the preservation of life. It identifies three distinct situations in which state authorities may be justified in declining to take intervening action in order to save a life. It argues that the right to life encompasses recognition of the impossibility and undesirability of preserving human life in all circumstances and that recognition of this fact will render the right more useful in a health-care context.

scholarly journals Assessing the Respect and Dignity for Human Life in the Nigerian Health Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Marcus Garvey Orji ◽  
Felicia Onyenemerem
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

Human dignity is ‘an individual or group's sense of self-respect and self-worth, physical and psychological integrity and empowerment. The basis for the theme of Human dignity, is that humans were created in the image and likeness of God. Regardless of any factors or reasons we can think of, individuals have an inherent and immeasurable worth and dignity; each human life is considered sacred and must be respected. Thus, the health sector has the obligation of considering the ethical dimensions of the major determinants of human health, respect and dignity. The objective of this study is to examine the issues of respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector. The study is a survey research, and data was collected from both primary and secondary source, and analysed by simple percentages and tabulations. The result of the findings revealed that respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector is very necessary; promotion and protection of human rights and of health care are fundamentally linked; Nigerian health workers have not fared well in the area of respect for human dignity, and that Nigerian government policies and cultures have impeded the protection of rights and dignity of persons in the health sector. The study among others recommended the education and change of mentality through media of the Nigerian health workers on the need for respect and dignity of human life in the health care institutions, reformation of the health care sector, planning it in such a way that respect and dignity for human life will reflect in the centrality of the programme of reformation and activities.

scholarly journals Assessing the Respect and Dignity for Human Life in the Nigerian Health Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Marcus Garvey Orji ◽  
Felicia Onyenemerem
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

Human dignity is ‘an individual or group's sense of self-respect and self-worth, physical and psychological integrity and empowerment. The basis for the theme of Human dignity, is that humans were created in the image and likeness of God. Regardless of any factors or reasons we can think of, individuals have an inherent and immeasurable worth and dignity; each human life is considered sacred and must be respected. Thus, the health sector has the obligation of considering the ethical dimensions of the major determinants of human health, respect and dignity. The objective of this study is to examine the issues of respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector. The study is a survey research, and data was collected from both primary and secondary source, and analysed by simple percentages and tabulations. The result of the findings revealed that respect and dignity for human life in the Nigerian health sector is very necessary; promotion and protection of human rights and of health care are fundamentally linked; Nigerian health workers have not fared well in the area of respect for human dignity, and that Nigerian government policies and cultures have impeded the protection of rights and dignity of persons in the health sector. The study among others recommended the education and change of mentality through media of the Nigerian health workers on the need for respect and dignity of human life in the health care institutions, reformation of the health care sector, planning it in such a way that respect and dignity for human life will reflect in the centrality of the programme of reformation and activities.

PACIENTO KONFIDENCIALIOS INFORMACIJOS TEIKIMO VALSTYBĖS INSTITUCIJOMS TEISINIS REGULIAVIMAS

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Giedrius Mozūraitis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Republic

The private life of a patient is protected by international and national legal acts, however, often the information on a patient’s health must be revealed to state institutions. The article reveals the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania in the field of the immunity of patients’ private life. Basing on legal acts, the practice of the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, the doctrine of law, the basis of state institutions’ right to obtain confidential information on patients were analyzed as well as the forms and procedure of the provision of information. The analysis of cases is provided when health care institutions cannot provide confidential information on patients to state institutions. A conclusion is drawn that the state’s duty to ensure the protection of human dignity and security also means that state institutions and officers may not restrict human rights and liberties unfoundedly. In each case, a human being must be considered as a free person, whose dignity should be respected. State institutions and officers have the duty to respect human dignity as especial value. Violation of a person’s rights and liberties may violate a person’s dignity as well.

scholarly journals Tat Twam Asi Dan Solusi Masalah Study Chandogya Upanisad

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Putu Dian Tika
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Chāndogya Upaniṣad ◽  
Brothers And Sisters

<p><em>Mahavakya tat twam asi is contained in the chandogya upanisad 6.8.7 “which means: you  are    it; You are all that; All beings are You. You are the beginning of jiwatman (spirit) and substance (prakrti) of all beings. Therefore my soul and your soul are single with the soul of all beings, and you are my source and the source of all beings. Therefore I am you, and vice versa. There are still a few Hindus who understand the meaning of Tat Twam Asi. Even though Tat Twam Asi is the Teachings of the similarity of Human Dignity or the Teachings of the Brotherhood. True, indeed all humans are brothers and sisters as a big family of the world, because the Atman of every human being is the same, namely the spark of the divine light of the Almighty God. Therefore there is also interpreting Tat Twam Asi as my Atman is your Atman, on the contrary your Atman is my Atman but there are also those who interpret Tat Twam Asi as the Doctrine of Compassion, where a large number of human beings must love one another, help each other and sharpen each other, love each other and fostering each other, so that life and human life become harmonious, safe, peaceful and peaceful.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em><br /></em></strong><em></em><em></em></p>

O CONCEITO DE PESSOA NO DEBATE BIOÉTICO "The Concept of person in bioethical debate"

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Sérgio Grigoleto
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
De Se ◽  
Bioethical Debate ◽  
Exact Moment ◽  
The Way

O presente Artigo apresenta diversas formas de se compreender quando começa a vida humana. Dependendo da forma de compreender o início desse fenômeno e de como se compreende o embrião ou feto, dependerá nosso modo de nos relacionarmos com o ele, – o feto – assim como a sua condição jurídica. Apresenta-se de início, a corrente personalista, que identifica o conceito de pessoa com o de ser humano, defendendo que o ser humano, desde seu primeiríssimo estágio de desenvolvimento é pessoa, e, portanto, titular de direitos. Logo após, apresenta-se várias teorias que afirmam que o embrião ou feto, de acordo com seu estágio de desenvolvimento é um ser humano, mas não é pessoa, e por isso, não é titular de direitos, entre os quais, o direito fundamental à vida e à integridade física.Palavras-chave: Início da vida. Embrião. Pessoa. Pré-natal. AbstractThis Paper presents several forms one can apprehend the exact moment which human life in flows out. Depending on the way one perceives as being embryo or fetus, from these perspectives, one can discover how dealing with it, i.e. the embryo or fetus, as well as with regards to its juridical condition. One can present, first of all, the personalistic current which identifies the concept regarding to the person with the human being that one, assuming the which the human being according to, since its primary development stage, is a person in itself and therefore – person – has its own rights as a titular by itself. Soon after, one has presented several theories that affirm the embryo or fetus, according to its development is a human being, but it is not a person and, therefore, it has not its right as a titular by itself, including among these ones i.e. rights, its fundamental right to life and to its physical integrity.Keywords: Life Beginning. Embryo. Person. Pre-natal.

scholarly journals Bioethics and Biolaw in the Vaccine against COVID 19 in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Aló Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Ethical Content ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right

The pandemic that was caused by COVID 19 made the world rethink ethical principles, morals, and justice, but always side by side with science. Never has bioethics been thought of so much, as a science that aims to provide the ethical content so that the human being is treated with dignity in the face of scientific techniques that concern life. Bio law as a branch of legal science reveals itself as an indispensable branch to the legal system, to regulate and reconcile biotechnological advances with the principle of human dignity, founded on democracy and the defense of fundamental rights. In the international sphere, the right to life is foreseen in art. 4 of the 1969 American Convention on Human Rights, a document that was ratified by Brazil and comes from the regional system. In the Brazilian legal system, the provision is in article 1, clause III, of the Federal Constitution of 1988, which established human dignity as the foundation of the Democratic State of Law, also regulating, in article 5, the right to life. Starting from these guidelines that the human being should not be considered a "thing", or an instrument, the thought, even if philosophical, can lead to important conclusions in the field of scientific experimentation, especially with what has been happening in relation to the vaccines for COVID-19, that even if approved by a committee and following international protocols, one cannot guarantee with them the absolute protection of human dignity, principles of bioethics and fundamental human values. And, because of these discussions, the courts are urged to manifest themselves about the refusals of workers to be vaccinated.

scholarly journals Sociálno-patologické javy v rodine s dieťaťom so špeciálnymi výchovno-vzdelávacÍmi potrebami

2016 ◽  
pp. 217-229
Author(s):  
Maroš Šip
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being

The issues related to socio­­pathological phenomena, are perceived as having serious social and other psy­chological consequences. Violence of any type is defined as a premeditated act, ag­gression as a way of disrupting human dignity, as seriously endangering the quality of human life, the freedom of the human being. The aim of our contribu­tion is to define socio ­pathological phe­nomena relating to children with special educative needs.

scholarly journals Życie i płodność. Moralne aspekty naturalnych metod planowania rodziny

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 163-177
Author(s):  
Marek Kluz
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Biological Rhythm ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Fundamental Function ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church

Fertility is an inalienable feature of a human being, a fundamental function of sexuality, an attribute of maturity and an element that belongs to the essence of life. Fertility as an attribute of spousal love describes the field of many mutual achievements of a couple. Life processes are thus wisely regulated by nature itself in its biological rhythm. The knowledge of corporality and the rhythms of fertility is a prerequisite for responsible parenthood. Thus, responsible parenthood is an important matter for every married couple and the knowledge of nature is of much help in this area. To get to know nature better one must refer to the natural methods of conception, accepted and recommended by the Church. The aim of this publication is to present the natural methods of planning a family as an alternative to other methods widespread in the modern world which pose a danger to human life, marital bond and human dignity. Despite many publications which raise this issue, the subject of giving life in harmony with nature still remains open and inexhaustible.

scholarly journals Dignità umana e bioetica Sui rischi correlati all’asserito “diritto” di morire

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Eusebi
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Agent ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Negative Judgment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

L’affermazione della dignità umana implica il superamento dell’idea secondo cui si potrebbe agire negativamente verso un altro individuo in corrispondenza a un giudizio negativo sulle sue condizioni esistenziali, sulle sue qualità o sulla utilità del rapporto con lui. Ne deriva l’idea antitetica di rapporti intersoggettivi fondati sul riconoscimento di ogni altro come soggetto portatore di esigenze relazionali proprie della communitas humana. In questo senso, dandosi una connessione inscindibile tra ogni profilo dell’umano e la corporeità, solo il rispetto della vita in tutto l’arco in cui essa è in atto salvaguarda il principio di uguaglianza, quale presupposto della democrazia. La stessa decisione contro la propria vita, in quanto produce il venir meno dell’individuo come soggetto morale, non può ritenersi un’affermazione coerente della dignità umana. Sotto il profilo giuridico, configurare relazioni mediche finalizzate alla morte (ferma la non doverosità di trattamenti sproporzionati) compromette il ruolo garantistico svolto dalla tutela della vita, esponendo i soggetti più deboli a pregiudizi sostanziali della loro dignità. ---------- Affirming human dignity implies overcoming the idea that one is entitled to act negatively towards another human being, on the basis of a corresponding negative judgment on his/her personal conditions or qualities, or on the basis of how useful the relationship with him/her might be. Consequently, the opposite idea has to be fostered, i.e., the idea that interpersonal relationships are grounded in the recognition of every “other” person as someone who carries all the relational needs specifically linked to the communitas humana. This said, given the inseparable connection between all aspects of humanity and our bodily dimension, only the full respect of the human life throughout its course can safeguard the principle of equality, which is a fundamental condition for democracy. The decision to act against one’s own life is in itself not coherent with human dignity, since it terminates the individual as a moral agent. From the juridical point of view, allowing patient-doctor relationships aimed at causing death (accepted that disproportionate clinical treatments are not due) endangers the warranties played by the legal protection of human life, and therefore it substantially affects the dignity of those who are weak.

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