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Making sense of dignity
In this review of Leon Kass’s Life, liberty and the defense of dignity and Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword’s Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. I consider the prospects for a theory of dignity as a basis for bioethics research. I argue that dignity theories are worth exploring in more detail, but that research needs to consider both ‘‘antitheory’’ accounts of the language of bioethics...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2004.011130