Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility [electronic resource] : the New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw / Yechiel Michael Barilan.
"'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, h...
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MIT Press,
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| Series: | Basic bioethics.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Hermeneutics and history of human dignity
- Reconstructing human dignity as a moral value
- Human rights or natural moral rights
- Moral status
- Responsibility beyond human rights
- A synthetic summary.