BACKGROUND The lack of a holistic approach to palliative care can lead to a fractured sense of dignity at the end of life, resulting in depression, hopelessness, feelings of being a burden to others, and the loss of the will to live among terminally ill patients. Building on the clinical foundation of Dignity Therapy, together with the empirical understanding of dignity-related concerns of Asia...

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...

Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society. The traditional goals of intensive care are to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with critical illness, maintain organ function, and restore health. Despite technological advances, death in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains commonplace. Death rates vary widely within and among countries and are influenced by many factors.1 Comparat...

The self is defined and judged differently by people from face and dignity cultures (in this case, Hong Kong and the United States, respectively). Across 3 experiments, people from a face culture absorbed the judgments of other people into their private self-definitions. Particularly important for people from a face culture are public representations--knowledge that is shared and known to be sh...

Ethics education is an essential component of academic programs that prepare nurses for advanced practice; the concept of respect for human dignity is integral to this education. Sixty-three graduate students enrolled in their first course of a nurse practitioner program completed a researcher-developed Ethics Questionnaire that was designed to elicit their baseline ethics-related knowledge, in...

Respecting and enabling an individual's right to privacy and dignity is an essential part of professional practice. Older people and their supporters face many challenges as part of the ageing process. The key role of nurses is to ensure that, as part of their therapeutic care, people can expect freedom from intrusion and be regarded as worthy of respect. This paper outlines some strategies tha...

References to human dignity are littered throughout modern human rights and bioethics instruments, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the European Convention on Human Rights (1950), to UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005) and the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki (2008). Dignity is both the background value of these texts, and th...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA 2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph's, Phoenix, AZ, USA 3 Baylor University, Waco, TX, US 4 University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St...