Definition of the problem The ideal of a truly predictive medicine vested with effective causal
strategies of prevention down to the molecular level is far from being reality. However, we …

An obligation to be healthy in the sauce of a categorical imperative" You shall change your
life!"(P. Sloterdijk) does not exist. There is however a moral responsibility to shape ones own …

Neue Diagnose-und Therapiemöglichkeiten, unterschiedliche Werthaltungen in modernen
Gesellschaften (Wertepluralismus) sowie die Begrenztheit der zur Verfügung stehenden …

Illness and health are terms open to interpretation. Their meaning depends on cultural
backgrounds, societal designations and historical change. During the modern era, having …

Health as a human right Resource allocation in public health Social inequalities in health
Personal responsibility for health and (un) healthy behaviours The role of law in public …

New developments in modern medicine and biotechnology put long time certitudes about
the meaning of ähealth and äillness more and more into question. Also, these concepts …

This article raises the following questions: will the problems that are being addressed by
contemporary medical ethics and bioethics change in the time to come and will their current …

The influence of bioethics upon medicine as a new discipline is seen in a change of the style
of the medical discourse, but also in a substantial change of medicine. The latter consists in …

It is often argued that the use of the “Georgetown principles”[6] in bioethics is at best suitable
in a North American context but is foreign to European ways of thinking. This is said to be …

Diese Ziele bildeten den weitgesteckten Rahmen des viertägigen Treffens, das zugleich die
Fusionierung der drei Organisationen, der American Association of Bioethics, der Society for …