Bioethics: criticism of principialism, Brazilian Constitution and principle of human dignity

Abstract

The insufficiency of the theoretical model of bioethics proposed by Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress for regulating biomedical research has long been discussed. Nowadays technological interventions that manipulate human life are increasingly requiring new ways to protect the dignity of people submitted to scientific experiments. This article aims to demonstrate the relevance of the principle of dignity to regulate biomedical researchs involving human beings. The study demonstrated the insufficiency of the principialist as the main model to apply to research involving human beings in the biomedical area The relevance of the principle of dignity as a paradigm for conducting scientific experiments involving human beings was evidenced through the analysis of the axiological framework of international bioethics, constitutional rights and guarantees, infraconstitutional laws ande legal doctrine.