Boshammer S, Kayss M, Runtenberg C, Ach J S
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
J Med Philos. 1998 Jun;23(3):324-33. doi: 10.1076/jmep.23.3.324.2584.
The current German criticism of HUGO centers around the term 'human dignity'; consenquentialist and autonomy-based arguments are used. The debate culminates in questioning the integrity of bioethics as a scholarly discipline and has created a heterogeneous coalition of disparate political and social groups that oppose any research that would facilitate genetic pre-selection of human characteristics.