num_pages: 272
description: 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.
language: English
title: Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw
titlecomplete: Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Oxford University Press