ABSTRACT
Bioethics in Denmark is characterized by confrontation among utilitarian, Protestant Christian, and egalitarian approaches to moral decision-making. During the last twenty years, there has been constant preoccupation with bioethical issues, and bioethics has moved from a relatively unknown subject to take a central place in public debates. Issues such as new reproductive technology, genetics, organ transplantation, and euthanasia, as well as problems of prioritization in the health care sector, have been extensively debated. In particular, the emergence of new technologies which challenge traditional ethical concepts and recent criticism of the Danish hospital system have driven bioethical discussion.
