Keywords in Bioethics: RESPECT, or How Respect for Persons became Respect for Autonomy

Authors

M. Therese Lysaught, Marquette University

Document Type

Presentation

Language

eng

Format of Original

26 p.

Publication Date

10-2002

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Source Publication

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

Source ISSN

0360-5310

Abstract

With the promulgation of the Belmont Report (1979) and the concurrent publication of the first edition of Beauchamp and Childress' Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1979), the notion of "respect" (for persons) entered the bioethics lexicon as the sine qua non for the ethical conduct of research and clinical ethics. This presentation will ferret out the history of that development and then follow its permutations, giving particular attention to its use in the DHHS Federal Regulations, the 1994 Report of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel, and the NBAC's 1999 "Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research."

Comments

Presented at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, Maryland, October 26, 2002

Recommended Citation

Lysaught, M. Therese, "Keywords in Bioethics: RESPECT, or How Respect for Persons became Respect for Autonomy" (2002). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 72.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/72