The Journal of Human Rights

The Journal of Human Rights

On Human Dignity in View of Bioethics and Human Rights

Document Type : Research Article

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PHD of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Shahid Beheshti,
Abstract
In the area of bioethics, human dignity is as a basic value, being necessary for human being beside his life and continuousness of his life. As the issue is a basic value ethically, law will be agent to protect it and takes some actions in support of that. Thus, as human dignity appears as “a basic value ethically” in the field of bioethics it also comes into view as “a basic right legally” in the field of law. The article with emphasis on human dignity, along with defining human dignity, deals with the issue in the frames of ethical value and right, and attempts to describe the varieties of human dignity and its exact definition in the sphere of bioethics. Finally, protective approaches will be described on the base of human international rights law.
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