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Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Advance Access originally published online on April 22, 2009
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2009 34(3):241-260; doi:10.1093/jmp/jhp022
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Solidarity and the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

Darryl Gunson

University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK

Address correspondence to: Darryl Gunson, PhD, School of Social Sciences University of the West of Scotland, Paisley Campus, Paisley PA1 2BE, U.K. E-mail: darryl.gunson{at}uws.ac.uk


  Abstract

Recent work has stressed the importance of the concept of solidarity to bioethics and social philosophy generally. But can and should it feature in documents such as the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights as anything more than a vague notion with multiple possible interpretations? Although noting the tension between universality and particularity that such documents have to deal with, and also noting that solidarity has a political content, the paper explores the suggestion that solidarity should feature more centrally in international regulations. The paper concludes with the view that when solidarity is seen aright, the UDBHR is an implicitly solidaristic document.

Keywords: bioethics, solidarity, UNESCO, universal declaration


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