The two concepts — human rights and capabilities — go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other. There are many human rights that can be seen as rights to particular capabilities. However, human rights to important...

Bioethics as a pluridisciplinary activity aims to clarify and solve actual ethical problems generated by science and bio-medical technologies. The gap between the scientific and medical progress and the law generally and Human Rights especially does not allow immediate answers to many questions...