BIOETHICAL DILEMMAS

THIS IS A DISSERTATION ABOUT BIOETHICAL DILEMMAS. THE AIM OF THIS WORK WAS TO DETERMINE WHAT ARE DILEMMAS, WHAT ARE DILEMMAS IN BIOETHICS, WHAT ARE THE SUBJECTS COMMON TO ALL DILEMMAS AND CLASSIFY DILEMMAS IN BIOETHICS DIVIDING THEM INTO CATEGORIES. FOR THIS DISSERTATION, I USED CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHIC PAPERS AND BOOKS, RECENT RELEVANT BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN THE FIELDS OF HEALTH (BIOETHICS AND MEDICINE), HUMANITIES (HISTORY, POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ETHICS) AND MATHEMATICS (MODAL LOGIC AND PROBABILITY THEORY). THE DILEMMAS WERE DIVIDED IN? IDENTITY DILEMMAS, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS DILEMMAS, FREEDOM DILEMMAS AND FUTURE SUFFERING DILEMMAS (THIS LAST ONE BEING A FIXED CATEGORY TO ALL DILEMMAS). DILEMMAS IN BIOETHICS ARE COMPLEX, POLEMIC AND HISTORICALLY ATTACHED TO RELIGIOUS “RULES”. THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE. IF WE ACCEPT THAT WE CAN FIT NON-CLASSICAL CONCEPTS INTO THESE SET OF DILEMMAS POSSIBILITIES, DILEMMAS ON BIOETHICS BECOME MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE.