Title: Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw /
Authors: Beyleveld, Deryck; Brownsword, Roger
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Medical ethics; Bioethics; Dignity; Ethics, Medical; Bioethics
Abstract: While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
Contents: Human dignity as empowerment -- Human dignity and the new bioethics: human dignity as constraint -- Dignity, human dignity, and dignified conduct -- The principle of generic consistency and its justification -- Kant and Gerwith -- Dignity, rights, and virtue under the principle of generic consistency -- Being born with dignity: selecting the genetic characteristics of offspring -- Living with dignity I: ownership and commodification of human body parts -- Living with dignity II: patents and contracts -- Living with dignity III: prolonging life, denying death, and cosmetic augmentation -- Dying with dignity.