Search for dissertations about: "Barbro Björkman"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Barbro Björkman.

  2. 1. Ethical aspects of owning human biological material

    Author : Barbro Björkman; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biological material; ownership; rights; organ donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

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  4. 2. Virtue Ethics, Bioethics, and the Ownership of Biological Material

    Author : Barbro Björkman; Sven Ove Hansson; Brad Hooker; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biological material; ownership; rights; organ; donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to show how some ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics can be interpreted and used as a productive way to approach a number of pressing issues in bioethics. Articles I-II introduce, and endorse, a social constructivist perspective on rights (as opposed to the more traditional natural rights idea). READ MORE