The book offers a systematic insight into methodological and thematic questions of medical and bioethics in Germany from 1995 to 2016 across 24 chapters. It begins with metaethical aspects of the relationship between ethics and morality, as well as the problematic combination of medical ethics and the history of medicine at German universities. Central bioethical and biopolitical discourse areas are then discussed, such as stem cell research, preimplantation diagnostics, predictive medicine, as well as euthanasia and transplantation medicine, all of which address pressing normative issues at the beginning and end of human life. Unlike the current bioethical mainstream, this book emphasizes the primacy of the inviolable dignity of the human being over the notion of autonomy, which can never be considered absolute.