2005
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-004-6857-6
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Vulnerability: What kind of principle is it?

Abstract: The so-called European principles of bioethics are a welcome enrichment of principlist bioethics. Nevertheless, vulnerability, dignity and integrity can perhaps be more accurately understood as anthropological descriptions of the human condition. They may inspire a normative language, but they do not contain it primarily lest a naturalistic fallacy be committed. These anthropological features strongly suggest the need to develop deontic arguments in support of the protection such essential attributes of humani… Show more

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“…Finding the reasons that make the individual vulnerable to prevent them will contribute decisively to improving the patient's health. Recognizing vulnerability as a decisive element in the integrity of the individual, without leaving aside the role of autonomy, equity, prudence, otherness and, above all, solidarity, makes it an extremely important reference point in bioethics, a true marker of the one who is exposed 6,[16][17][18][19] .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finding the reasons that make the individual vulnerable to prevent them will contribute decisively to improving the patient's health. Recognizing vulnerability as a decisive element in the integrity of the individual, without leaving aside the role of autonomy, equity, prudence, otherness and, above all, solidarity, makes it an extremely important reference point in bioethics, a true marker of the one who is exposed 6,[16][17][18][19] .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the study on the theme of human frailty promoted by harm and violence situations, exemplified by the case of the motorcycle traffic, it is possible to suggest two levels of vulnerability analysis, being the first oriented towards the intrinsic human condition and the biological frailty -which allow illness and the end of life itself -and the second being inherent to the lack of minimum conditions for human life dignity (Corgozinho;Oliveira, 2016;Correa, 2011;Kottow, 2011). …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, it becomes irrelevant for defining special vulnerability per se. The invulnerability standard is what enables special vulnerability account: detection of those who have failed to reach it and consequent justification of special protection of those -fallen‖ subjects (Kottow, 2005). This approach neither questions how or why there has been a shift from the standard in the first place, nor does it wish to support vulnerable subjects in reaching their invulnerable mode of existence.…”
Section: The Concept Of Invulnerabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%