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Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262305815
Book: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262305815
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 14 September 2012
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9311.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262305815
A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw. “Human dignity” has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term—like love, hope, and justice—that is intuitively grasped but never clearly defined. Some ethicists and bioethicists dismiss it; other thinkers point to its use in the service of particular ideologies. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights. After setting the problem in its scholarly context, he offers a hermeneutics of the formative texts on Imago Dei; provides a philosophical explication of the value of human dignity and of vulnerability; presents a comprehensive theory of human rights from a natural, humanist perspective; explores issues of moral status; and examines the value of responsibility as a link between virtue ethics and human dignity and rights. Barilan accompanies his theoretical claim with numerous practical illustrations, linking his theory to such issues in bioethics as end-of-life care, cloning, abortion, torture, treatment of the mentally incapacitated, the right to health care, the human organ market, disability and notions of difference, and privacy, highlighting many relevant legal aspects in constitutional and humanitarian law.