Health union and bioethical union : does Hippocrates require Socrates?

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dc.contributor.authorCOGHLAN, Niall
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-20T13:30:24Z
dc.date.available2020-11-20T13:30:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionPublished online 21 October 2020en
dc.description.abstractHealth Union raises bioethical questions ranging from resource allocation and risk balancing to respect for specific bioethical prohibitions, as an analysis of the European Parliament’s proposal for such a union shows. To date, European Union (EU) health law has succeeded in avoiding or circumscribing such questions, leading to the limited and inconsistent patchwork of EU bioethical provisions we currently have. Can this continue with a Health Union? This article argues that whilst full harmonisation is neither possible nor desirable, Health Union should entail a deepening of bioethical integration. This should occur via a robust legislative process involving citizen panels and ethical advisory group input; if Treaty change occurs, this process could be included in primary law. This is so for three reasons. First, addressing Health Union’s unavoidable bioethical questions coherently and openly reduces the risk of inadequate protection and, conversely, of interest groups “smuggling in” unsupported answers. Second, this will ensure respect for primary law, including Article 2 TEU and Article 3 CFR. Third, EU biolaw offers a middle ground between limited national and weak international human rights law on bioethics, whilst also consolidating European identity.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2020-2022)
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of risk regulation, 2020, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 766-780en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/err.2020.89
dc.identifier.endpage780en
dc.identifier.issn1867-299X
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dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.startpage766en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/68961
dc.identifier.volume11en
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
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dc.titleHealth union and bioethical union : does Hippocrates require Socrates?en
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