THE GAP BETWEEN BIOETHICS PRINCIPLISM AND JUDICIAL RESPONSIBILITY: HOW SOCIAL SCIENCES CAN HELP ROMANIAN LAW
THE GAP BETWEEN BIOETHICS PRINCIPLISM AND JUDICIAL RESPONSIBILITY: HOW SOCIAL SCIENCES CAN HELP ROMANIAN LAW
Author(s): Andrei Nanu, Diana Bulgaru-Iliescu, Tudor-Ştefan Rotaru, Liviu OpreaSubject(s): Constitutional Law, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Law
Published by: Expert Projects Publishing
Keywords: medical practice; bio-ethical principles; social sciences; legislation; judicial responsibility;
Summary/Abstract: Applying bioethics traditional principles in modern medicine is a difficult process. Alternative approaches compete with the so-called principlism. The law is required to offer solutions that best fit contemporary realities and moral problems, always taking into account the individual and the survival of the medical system. This paper shows how the four principles of Beauchamp & Childress (2009) translate into Romanian law. It argues that social sciences shouldn’t be considered from an adversarial position with bioethics. Authors consider that the empirical based psychological and sociological findings are able to fill in the gap between bioethics and an adapted and regulated medical practice. This is true worldwide and especially in Romania, where transition makes the defensive medicine a danger for quality evidence-based care.
Journal: Revista de Cercetare şi Intervenţie Socială
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 49
- Page Range: 216-228
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English