Bioéthique et droits de l’homme

Abstract

Bioethics and human rights. A conjunction of two terms, which seems certain of the apprehension of a relation between two entities with definite conceptual contours. On the one hand, bioethics as a very recent discipline, and thus supposed to be the heiress of philosophical experience in its ultimate ripening. And on the other hand, the notion of human rights, which seems to be setting itself up as a humanist doctrine of universality and above all, paradoxically individualist with the aim of asserting the right of everyone to a minimum of inalienable rights. Human rights have been deliberately violated throughout the history of humanity, leading to the most heinous atrocities such as slavery, genocide, wars, radical segregation and many other scourges.