| Description |
xix, 555 p. ; digital, PDF file |
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Mode of access: Internet via The President's Council on Bioethics web site. Address as of 12/2/08: http://www.bioethics.gov/reports/human%5fdignity/human%5fdignity%5fand%5fbioethics.pdf; current access available via PURL. |
| Note |
Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 2, 2008). |
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"March 2008." |
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Also issued in print. |
| Contents |
Bioethics and the question of human dignity / Adam Schulman -- Human dignity and respect for persons : a historical perspective on public bioethics / F. Daniel Davis -- How to protect human dignity from science / Daniel C. Dennett -- Human dignity and the mystery of the human soul / Robert P. Kraynak -- Commentary on Kraynak / Daniel C. Dennett -- Commentary on Dennett / Robert P. Kraynak -- Commentary on Dennett / Alfonso Gomez-Lobo -- Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective / Patricia S. Churchland -- Commentary on Churchland / Gilbert Meilaender -- Human uniqueness and human dignity : persons in nature and the nature of persons / Holmes Rolston III -- Human dignity and the future of man / Charles Rubin -- Dignity and enhancement / Nick Bostrom -- Commentary on Bostrom / Charles Rubin -- Human dignity and public discourse / Richard John Neuhaus -- Modern and American dignity / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Human dignity : exploring and explicating the Council's vision / Gilbert Meilaender -- Commentary on Meilaender and Dennett / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Commentary on Meilaender and Lawler / Diana Schaub -- Defending human dignity / Leon R. Kass -- Kant's concept of human dignity as a resource for bioethics / Susan M. Shell -- Human dignity and political entitlements / Martha Nussbaum -- Commentary on Nussbaum, Shell, and Kass / Diana Schaub -- The irreducibly religious character of human dignity / David Gelernter -- The nature and basis of human dignity / Patrick Lee and Robert P. George -- Two arguments from human dignity / Paul Weithman -- Dignity and bioethics : history, theory, and selected applications / Daniel P. Sulmasy -- Human dignity and the seriously ill patient / Rebecca Dresser -- The lived experience of human dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Dignity.
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Bioethics.
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Natural law.
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Humanism.
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Human rights.
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Soul.
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Sick.
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| Added Author |
President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.)
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| Other Form: |
Human dignity and bioethics (DLC) 2008614517 (OCoLC)213441584 |
| Gpo Item No. |
0851-J-16 (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
PR 43.8:B 52/D 56 |
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