Human dignity and bioethics
Subtitle: essays commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics
By: [essays and commentaries by Adam Schulman ... et al.].
Contributors: Schulman, Adam.; President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.)
Publisher: [President's Council on Bioethics
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
Subjects: Bioethics; Dignity
Notes: "March 2008."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bioethics and the question of human dignity / Adam Schulman; title: Human dignity and respect for persons : a historical perspective on public bioethics / F. Daniel Davis; title: How to protect human dignity from science / Daniel C. Dennett; title: Human dignity and the mystery of the human soul / Robert P. Kraynak; title: Commentary on Kraynak / Daniel C. Dennett; title: Commentary on Dennett / Robert P. Kraynak; title: Commentary on Dennett / Alfonso Gómez-Lobo; title: Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective / Patricia S. Churchland; title: Commentary on Churchland / Gilbert Meilaender; title: Human uniqueness and human dignity : persons in nature and the nature of persons / Holmes Rolston III; title: Human dignity and the future of man / Charles Rubin; title: Dignity and enhancement / Nick Bostrom; title: Commentary on Bostrom / Charles Rubin; title: Human dignity and public discourse / Richard John Neuhaus; title: Modern and American dignity / Peter Augustine Lawler; title: Human dignity : exploring and explicating the Council's vision / Gilbert Meilaender; title: Commentary on Meilaender and Dennett / Peter Augustine Lawler; title: Commentary on Meilaender and Lawler / Diana Schaub; title: Defending human dignity / Leon R. Kass; title: Kant's concept of human dignity as a resource for bioethics / Susan M. Shell; title: Human dignity and political entitlements / Martha Nussbaum; title: Commentary on Nussbaum, Shell, and Kass / Diana Schaub; title: The irreducibly religious character of human dignity / David Gelernter; title: The nature and basis of human dignity / Patrick Lee and Robert P. George; title: Two arguments from human dignity / Paul Weithman; title: Dignity and bioethics : history, theory, and selected applications / Daniel P. Sulmasy; title: Human dignity and the seriously ill patient / Rebecca Dresser; title: The lived experience of human dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino.