BACKGROUND Dignity is a complex concept and there is little empirical research to show how older people view dignity. This study, using qualitative methods, explored the concept of dignity from the older person's perspective. METHODS 15 focus groups and two individual interviews were conducted in 12 different settings, with a total of 72 participants. Participants were purposively sampled to ...

Human dignity is the nature of a human being. It became modus existence, which differentiates humans from other biological species. life and are declared priority values in international conventions declarations. Intrinsic character was forerunner for development new multidiscipline named bioethics XX century. This article begins with basics regulations field dignity, definitions, analysis main...

Today's talk about any health issue is part of a wider web of neoliberal destructive processes of which all fall into the category of discriminating populations and their cultures, downgrading their right to life and violating their human dignity. Poor health, poverty stricken health systems and screaming epidemiological factors make just one more triangle of the successive visible consequences...

the inherent dignity is a divine bounty from god to man and since it is inherent and intrinsic in human nature, its dispossession is not possible. according to some of the noble verses of the qur’ān, human dignity can be proved as a type of honor that denotes enjoyment of the bounty of reasoning, free will, divine breath, power of choice, etc. and all human beings equally enjoy it and a princip...

Dignity represents the essence of nursing care; hence, nurses are professionally responsible for promoting understanding about the promotion, provision, and preservation of every patient's dignity, while considering contextual differences. The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influence, promote, or compromise patient dignity. A purposeful sample of 14 participants with hospital...

Positions on the ethics of human enhancement technologies can be (crudely) characterized as ranging from transhumanism to bioconservatism. Transhumanists believe that human enhancement technologies should be made widely available, that individuals should have broad discretion over which of these technologies to apply to themselves, and that parents should normally have the right to choose enhan...

For more than a decade, stem cell research has been the topic of oftenpolarized debates about the nature and scope of scientific freedom (Caulfield, 2004; Downie et al, 2005; Foley, 2000; Hsu, 1999; Keane, 2006; Taylor, 2003). Some have suggested that attempts to regulate the field have yielded an unprecedented degree of political interference in the arena of scientific inquiry (Cattaneo & Corb...