Naslov
Bioethics of Handedness: From Evolution to Resolution?

Autori
Muzur, Amir ; Rinčić Lerga, Iva

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Bioethics in the 21st Century / Iva Sorta-Bilajac, Ivana Blažević, Ana Tancabel - Rijeka : The International Association of Bioethics ; University of Rijeka - School of Medicine ; The Croatian Society for Clinical Bioethics, 2008, 218-218

Skup
The 9th World Congress of Bioethics

Mjesto i datum
Opatija, Hrvatska; Rijeka, Hrvatska, 03.09.2008. - 08.09.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
left-right; handedness; eugenics

Sažetak
Departing from historical facts and speculations on the evolution of human right-hand dominance (including theories on the development of right-handedness and cultural and linguistic sequellae of such a phenomenon), the present work stresses the delicate problem of the traditional favoring of one particular subpopulation, escalating into a real eugenic practice present sporadically even in modern times. The major hypothesis of the paper would be that the problem of forced handedness had been neglected by (bio)ethical theory, practice, and literature, and that it was absolved only recently by the results of modern neuroscientific research on handedness. According to that hypothesis, ending the discrimination took too much time precisely because the initial lack of the problem insight, which certainly should invoke cautioness for any potentially similar phenomena in the future.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Povijest

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