Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the principles of human dignity and human rights from the viewpoint of bioethics, describes the development and modifications of the concepts of “human dignity” and “human rights” in different historical stages. The main purpose of the article’s detailed observation is a complete and true perception of the problems of human dignity and human rights in the contemporary globalized world. To implement the above-mentioned aim, the paper deals with different international conventions and declarations: Convention for the Protection of Human and Dignity of the human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine, European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights and Biomedicine: The Oviedo Convention and its Protocols, The Nuremberg Code, The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, WMA Declaration of Geneva, WMA Declaration of Helsinki and WMA Declaration of Lisbon on the rights of the patient.

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