Human Dignity and Bioethics — Scriptorium Liberum

Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw

✍ Deryck Beyleveld, Roger Brownsword 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

The concept of human dignity is increasingly invoked in bioethical debate and, indeed, in international instruments concerned with biotechnology and biomedicine. While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, the

Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

📁 Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

✍ Charles Foster 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Hart Publishing 🌐 English

Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right. This is wrong, says Charles Foster: dignity is not only an essential principle in bioethic

Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

📁 Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law

✍ Charles Foster 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Hart Publishing 🌐 English

Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right. This is wrong, says Charles Foster: dignity is not only an essential principle in bioethic

Uncertain Bioethics: Moral Risk and Huma

📁 Uncertain Bioethics: Moral Risk and Human Dignity

✍ Stephen Napier 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Bioethics is a field of inquiry and as such is fundamentally an epistemic discipline. Knowing how we make moral judgments can bring into relief why certain arguments on various bioethical issues appear plausible to one side and obviously false to the other. Uncertain Bioethics make

Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Comm

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

✍ The President's Council on Bioethics 📂 Library 📅 2008 🌐 English

The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Cont

📁 The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics

✍ Christopher Kaczor (auth.), Stuart F. Spicker, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Kevin 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics resituates bioethics in fundamental outlook by challenging both the dominant Kantian and utilitarian approaches to evaluating how new technologies apply to human life. Drawing on an analysis of the dignity of the human person,