Abstract

MARIN-CASTAN, María-Luisa. The controversial decision of the European Court of Human Rights on the Gard case and others against the United Kingdom. Rev. Bioética y Derecho [online]. 2018, n.43, pp.261-276. ISSN 1886-5887.

The commented decision of the European Court of Human Rights refers to one of the most shocking and heartbreaking cases in recent times in the United Kingdom, which has had a great deal of media coverage. It raises some of the most important issues on Bioethics, such as dignified death, therapeutic cruelty, the judicialization of bioethical conflicts, patient's autonomy by representation, passive euthanasia in childhood or the confrontation between two conceptions of bioethics: the utilitarian and the personalist. With this contribution, I will limit myself to reflecting on some of the aspects that can contribute to promote the debate, free of prejudices and fundamentalisms of all kinds, that will allow the formation of consensus, as bioethics requires in the scenario of a global world.

Keywords : European Court of Human Rights; Charlie Gard case; bioethics; dignified death; autonomy; euthanasia; child euthanasia.

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