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...

The words “rights”, “trust”, “human dignity” and even “government” have widely varying meanings and connotations, differing across time, languages and cultures. Concepts of rights, trust and human dignity have been examined for centuries in great depth by ethicists and other philosophers and by religious thinkers, and more recently by social scientists and, especially as related to information,...

The history of our world today cannot be constructed without reckoning with the frequency of armed conflicts in many parts of the globe. Armed conflicts and wars have unfortunately assumed an important part of human existence. This paper conc nonetheless had from earliest times become the scourge of humanity. Ranging from loss of lives and property, internal displacement of people, the flow of ...

A paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management theories and practices is underway, exemplified in a shift from an economics oriented at the fictional homo oeconomicus towards novel models oriented at the real conditio humana. This methodological turn brings about both the opportunity and the necessity of re-orienting management theory as well as business education to the idea of hu...

Interventions with offenders have a normative layer as well as a scientific basis and therefore it is not possible to quarantine ethical questions from discussions of best practice. My aim in this paper is to provide an expanded ethical canvass from which to approach correctional practice with offenders. The cornerstone of this broader ethical perspective will be the concept of human dignity an...

Feticide, the practice of terminating the life of an otherwise viable fetus in utero, has become an increasingly common practice in obstetric centres around the globe, a concomitant of antenatal screening technologies. This paper examines this expanding practice in light of the concept of human dignity. Although it is assumed from the outset that even viable human fetuses are not persons and as...