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With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves.The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. Thisbookserves tosupplement this effort with a religious perspectivegiven a great number of the world s population is affiliated with some religious traditions.Whilethere is diversity within each of these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the weak, the...

Thus, here presented is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major world religions-Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism-who were gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective traditions.