Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw
By: Deryck Beyleveld, Roger Brownsword
Contributors: Brownsword, Roger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Medical ethics; Bioethics; Dignity
Description: ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Human dignity as empowerment; title: Human dignity and the new bioethics: human dignity as constraint; title: Dignity, human dignity, and dignified conduct; title: The principle of generic consistency and its justification; title: Kant and Gerwith; title: Dignity, rights, and virtue under the principle of generic consistency; title: Being born with dignity: selecting the genetic characteristics of offspring; title: Living with dignity I: ownership and commodification of human body parts; title: Living with dignity II: patents and contracts; title: Living with dignity III: prolonging life, denying death, and cosmetic augmentation; title: Dying with dignity