Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility : The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw /
"'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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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2012.
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Table des matières:
- 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.