Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics

Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics
ISBN-10
0160800714
ISBN-13
9780160800719
Category
Medical ethics
Pages
555
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
President's Council on Bioethics
Author
President's Council on Bioethics

Description

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Contains a collection of essays exploring human dignity and bioethics, a concept crucial to today's discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular.

This publication gives some examples of how human dignity can be a difficult concept to apply in bioethical controversies, explores some of the complex roots of the modern notion of human dignity, in order to shed light on why its application to bioethics is so problematic, and suggests, tentatively, that a certain conception of human dignity--dignity understood as humanity-- has an important role to play in bioethics, both now and especially in the future.

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