title: [Dignity and autonomy in North American bioethics].
abstract: Bioethics needs an inherent concept of dignity for each human being if it wants to protect the same values it assigned to itself at the beginning of its history. This affirmation will be evident for many, dubious for others, and for many in the Anglo-Saxon world, unacceptable. The principle of autonomy is avoids some of the abuses that effected the birth of bioethics, but it is not enough to avoid them completely. Dignity or a similar concept is required.
authors.affiliation: Università Romana della Santa Croce, 00186 Roma. requena@usc.urbe.it
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Requena Meana
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D014481:United States