• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw
  • Contributor: Beyleveld, Deryck [Author]; Brownsword, Roger [Contributor]
  • Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 288 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198268260.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191683473; 0191683477
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  • Keywords: Medical ethics ; Bioethics ; Dignity
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.