In recent years the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny
by the new data offered by science and technology. Scientific intervention into human life
through organ transplants euthanasia genetic engineering experiments connected to the
genetic code and the genome and varied other biotechnologies have placed ethical beliefs into
question and created ethical dilemmas. These scientific inventions influence our views on birth
and death on the construction of the body and its technical reproducibility and have
problematized the concept of the human persona. The purpose of bioethics the science of life
is to find new values and norms which will be valid for a multicultural society. Bioethics is
today a well-respected topic of research that has brought together philosophers and experts to
discuss the limits of science and medicine. The aim of this book is to merge the two fields of
bioethics and law (or biolaw) through the literary text by taking into consideration the
transformations of the concept of persona at which we have nowadays arrived. The new meaning of
the term ¿personä represents in fact the final point of a long-standing quest for man's sense
of his own being and human dignity and of his capacity to live in social interrelations. The
volume presents a wide range of perspectives comprising methodological approaches legal and
literary aspects.
