In recent years a succession of writers has lamented that a society which has the highest standard of living should also have the lowest standard of dying. Death, they maintain, has replaced sex as the most unmentionable taboo, and the act of dying has become lonely, mechanical, dehumanised, and at times gruesome.' Some have referred to the "obscenity of modern dying," exemplified by an imperso...

Building on ethnographic fieldwork in Belgian welfare bureaucracies, this article explores the place of emotions administrative treatment cases—particularly those involving migrants, whose rights are increasingly limited. Welfare offices responsible for granting social assistance—in form medical treatment, material help, or financial benefits—in order to guarantee that residing Belgium live dig...

The fallacy of the popular concept that "it's good enough for clinical purposes" is becoming more widely recognized as the potentialities of scientific methods in diagnosis and therapy increase. Such a manual as this should aim to raise the dignity and improve the quality of clinical chemistry and clinical chemists, not, by conceding to prevailing opinion, perpetuate its present mediocre estate...

Research indicates the essentiality of dignity as a vital component for quality of life, reconfirming the emphasis on dignity preservation in the international code of nursing ethics. Applying Noblit and Hare's meta-ethnography, the aim of the study was to develop a theory model by synthesizing 10 qualitative articles from various cultural contexts, exploring nurse and allied healthcare profess...

BACKGROUND The justification for Nazi programs involving involuntary euthanasia, forced sterilisation, eugenics and human experimentation were strongly influenced by views about human dignity. The historical development of these views should be examined today because discussions of human worth and value are integral to medical ethics and bioethics. We should learn lessons from how human dignity...

“human dignity” is mentioned in both the instruments of international human rights and the national constitutions of countries, and is often recognized either as a justification of “rights” or as one of the constitutional rights. this issue has a special place in the constitution of iran as well. consistent with the international and national human rights instruments, in different legal systems...