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Sanctity of life and human dignity
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- Creator
- edited by Kurt Bayertz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Dordrecht ; Boston [Mass.] : Kluwer Academic, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- xix, 318 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780792337393, 0792337395
- OCLC
- ocm33132102
- Results of a conference held in Bielefeld, Germany, October 1-3, 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction, Sanctity of life and human dignity / Kurt Bayertz -- The concept of sanctity of life and its use in contemporary bioethical discussion / James F. Keenan -- Sanctity of life, voluntary euthanasia and the Dutch experience, some implications for public policy / Helga Kuhse -- Value of life vs. sanctity of life, outlines of a bioethics that does without the concept of Menschenwürde / Wolfgang Lenzen -- Sanctity of life and human dignity at the bedside / Stephen Wear -- Human dignity, philosophical origin and scientific erosion of an idea / Kurt Bayertz -- The general notion of human dignity and the specific arguments in medical ethics / Martin Hailer and Dietrich Ritschl -- Ambiguities in the concept of Menschenwürde / Dieter Birnbacher -- Human dignity and genetic tests / Thomas Petermann -- The concept of a person in moral philosophy / Ludger Honnefelder -- Alterity and judgement, some moral implications of Hegel's concept of life / Mary C. Rawlinson -- Persons as "Self-Originating sources of value" / Anton Leist -- Sanctity of life and Menschenwürde, can these concepts help direct the use of resources in critical care? / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Not sanctity or dignity, but justice and autonomy, key moral concepts in the allocation of critical care / John C. Moskop -- Sanctity of life and the neonatalogist's dilemma / Volker von Loewenich -- The sanctity of human life, secular moral authority, biomedicine,and the role of the state / Kevin Wm. Wildes -- On the appeal for the recognition of human dignity in law and morality / Martin Honecker -- The concept of human dignity, an annotated bibliography / Björn Haferkamp -- The sanctity of life, a literature review / George Khushf
Subjects
- Medical ethics.
- Dignity.
- Life -- Religious aspects.
- Bioethics -- congresses.
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- Religion and Medicine -- congresses.
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