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Seminario - 11 5 2007
Seminario - 11 5 2007
for more than five years within the Bioethics committee were brought to official signing in Oviedo on April 4th, 1997 and became valid on December 1st, 1999. The Convention offers organization and uniformity within a long series of decisions taken by the European Council in the area of bioethics. The aim of the Convention was to set a minimum standard protecting human dignity in biomedicine which binds all the states signing the contract. As of Italy, the Convention was ratified as a law enacted on March 28th, 2003. However, it is noteworthy that some European countries haven't yet ratified the Convention, some, such as Great Britain, consider it too "restrictive" (Great Britain) whereas others, such as Germany, find it too "permissive". A key element in the Convention is the central role given to human dignity: the term is present already in the full title (Convention of the European Council of Europe for the protection of the human right and the dignity of the human being relative to the application of biology and medicine), and is reiterated a few times more in the preamble. Article 1 declares that the goal of the Convention is to protect "the dignity and the identity of all human being" and to guarantee "every person, without discrimination, the respect of his/her integrity and of his/her right and fundamental freedoms relating to the applications of biology and medicine". The basic dictum of the primacy of human dignity as a value is the precedence given to human dignity over the interests of science and society (art.2); the notion of informed consent as a precondition to any the medical intervention (art. 5); a commitment to personal confidentiality regarding medical information (art. 10.1); the right to know and the right not to know the information relative to one's own health (art. 10.2); a commitment to non-discrimination on the basis of genetic markers (art. 11); limiting genetic testing only to medical diagnosis and research, thus prohibiting genetic testing for commercial purposes (art. 12), prohibition of germ-cell therapy (art. 13), prohibition on sex selection (art. 14), provision of special protection of the well being of participants in medical research (art. 16), prohibition on the production of embryos for the sake of medical experimentation (art. 18), provision of special protection of live organ donors (art. 19), prohibition on selling organs taken from the human body (art. 21).
Universit degli Studi di Padova Corso di Perfezionamento in Bioetica Dipartimento di Diritto Comparato
Seminario internazionale
11 Maggio 2007 Archivio Antico Palazzo del Bo Via VIII febbraio, 2 Padova
ore 14:30 16:30 Seconda sessione Second Session La semantica della dignit umana Human Dignity: Meaning and Interpretations Presiede - Chairperson ANTONIO DA RE
Relazione di apertura Opening Lecture La convenzione europea sui diritti delluomo e la biomedicina: una ricostruzione storica The European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine: Historical Background ADRIANO BOMPIANI ore 10:30 13:00 Prima sessione First Session A dieci anni dalla Convenzione Europea sui diritti delluomo e la biomedicina Tenth Anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine Presiedono - Chairpersons PAOLO BENCIOLINI ELENA PARIOTTI
ore 16:30 18:00 Workshop Pu lidea di dignit umana fornire la base per una bioetica globale? Can the Idea of Human Dignity Provide a Basis for Global Bioethics? Presiedono - Chairpersons CORRADO VIAFORA ENRICO FURLAN
Segreteria scientifica: Enrico Furlan (Dipartimento di Filosofia Universit di Padova) Mariassunta Piccinni (Dipartimento di Diritto Comparato Universit di Padova) Segreteria organizzativa: Sabrina Bortolami tel.: 049 8273461 fax: 049 8273479 e-mail: dip.dirittocomparato@unipd.it
Interventi di Interventions by JOHN GILLON (U.S.A.) PANCRAS ODONGO (UGANDA) MANSOOREH SANIEI (IRAN) SRIDEVI SEETHARAM (INDIA) MARINE STEPANIAN (ARMENIA) JOSE ERNESTO JACINTO TOMACRUZ (FILIPPINE) HAO ZHIWEI (CINA)