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Human dignity and bioethics [electronic resource] : essays commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics.
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- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dignity.
- Bioethics.
- Natural law.
- Humanism.
- Human rights.
- Soul.
- Sick.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 555 pages : digital, PDF file
- Other Title:
- Human Dignity and Bioethics
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The President's Council on Bioethics, [2008]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via The President's Council on Bioethics web site. Address as of 12/2/08: http://www.bioethics.gov/reports/human%5fdignity/human%5fdignity%5fand%5fbioethics.pdf; current access available via PURL.
- Contents:
- Bioethics and the question of human dignity / Adam Schulman
- Human dignity and respect for persons : a historical perspective on public bioethics / F. Daniel Davis
- How to protect human dignity from science / Daniel C. Dennett
- Human dignity and the mystery of the human soul / Robert P. Kraynak
- Commentary on Kraynak / Daniel C. Dennett
- Commentary on Dennett / Robert P. Kraynak
- Commentary on Dennett / Alfonso Gómez-Lobo
- Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective / Patricia S. Churchland
- Commentary on Churchland / Gilbert Meilaender
- Human uniqueness and human dignity : persons in nature and the nature of persons / Holmes Rolston III
- Human dignity and the future of man / Charles Rubin
- Dignity and enhancement / Nick Bostrom
- Commentary on Bostrom / Charles Rubin
- Human dignity and public discourse / Richard John Neuhaus
- Modern and American dignity / Peter Augustine Lawler
- Human dignity : exploring and explicating the Council's vision / Gilbert Meilaender
- Commentary on Meilaender and Dennett / Peter Augustine Lawler
- Commentary on Meilaender and Lawler / Diana Schaub
- Defending human dignity / Leon R. Kass
- Kant's concept of human dignity as a resource for bioethics / Susan M. Shell
- Human dignity and political entitlements / Martha Nussbaum
- Commentary on Nussbaum, Shell, and Kass / Diana Schaub
- The irreducibly religious character of human dignity / David Gelernter
- The nature and basis of human dignity / Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
- Two arguments from human dignity / Paul Weithman
- Dignity and bioethics : history, theory, and selected applications / Daniel P. Sulmasy
- Human dignity and the seriously ill patient / Rebecca Dresser
- The lived experience of human dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 2, 2008).
- "March 2008."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 276878867
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