期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2007
卷号：16
期号：3 (89)
页码：557-575
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：A vertiginous scientific-technological development of modern society in the recent couple of decades permanently animates the interest for an increasing number of issues of bioethical character. The complexity, long-standing and uncertainty of bioethical dilemmas and decisions have long since belonged to one of the interest fields of political decision-making, on the national as well as the international level. The work displays research results on ethical committees as special bodies for ethical correction whose main role consists in supervising scientific research and the process of making ethical decisions in health institutions. Particular interest is directed at the legal basis of ethical committees in the specific context of the European Union, since the non-obligatory advisory role of the Union’s responsible structures has created a situation in which actual decisions concerning bioethics, but also the seriousness of their responsibility, have been left to institutions of individual countries.
