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 authors of this groundbreaking new study give such appeals distinct and defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
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 authors of this groundbreaking new study give such appeals distinct and defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
Deryck Beyleveld is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics. Roger Brownsword is Professor of Law and head of the Department of Law at the University of Sheffield
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* 1: Human Dignity and Human Rights: Human Dignity as Empowerment * 2: Human Dignity and the New Bioethics: Human Dignity as Constraint * 3: Dignity, Human Dignity, and Dignified Conduct * 4: The Principle of Generic Consistency and Its Justification * 5: Kant and Gewirth * 6: Dignity, Rights, and Virtue under the Principle of Generic Consistency * 7: Being Born with Dignity: Selecting the Genetic Characteristics of Offspring * 8: Living with Dignity I: Ownership and Commodification of the Human Body and Its Parts * 9: Living wih Dignity II: Patents and Contracts * 10: Living with Dignity III: Prolonging Life, Denying Death, and Cosmetic Augmentation * 11: Dying with Dignity * Bibliography
* 1: Human Dignity and Human Rights: Human Dignity as Empowerment * 2: Human Dignity and the New Bioethics: Human Dignity as Constraint * 3: Dignity, Human Dignity, and Dignified Conduct * 4: The Principle of Generic Consistency and Its Justification * 5: Kant and Gewirth * 6: Dignity, Rights, and Virtue under the Principle of Generic Consistency * 7: Being Born with Dignity: Selecting the Genetic Characteristics of Offspring * 8: Living with Dignity I: Ownership and Commodification of the Human Body and Its Parts * 9: Living wih Dignity II: Patents and Contracts * 10: Living with Dignity III: Prolonging Life, Denying Death, and Cosmetic Augmentation * 11: Dying with Dignity * Bibliography
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