The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights sets out generally agreed criteria in response to the human rights challenges posed by advances in molecular biology and genetics. The lynchpin of these criteria is respect for human dignity, a premise from which other principles are derived. The author examines and gives the justification for these principles, and refers to another...

Methods Interviews with staff members were conducted focusing on a coercive measure they had carried out shortly before. The half-structured interview questioned how severely the patient's human rights were restricted during the coercive measure. We measured the restriction of human rights by a scale developed for this purpose, Human DIgnity during COercive Procedures, DICOP. It consists of the...

Modern Confucian scholars generally use the view of “virtuous dignity” in modern interpretation idea dignity. This emphasizes that human dignity comes from realization moral potential. The nature thought theory good is value basis this view. Due to excessive attention dignity, concept does not pay enough “universal dignity”. I think should take freedom rather than potential as so recognize equa...