Research Catalog

Title

Sanctity of life and human dignity / edited by Kurt Bayertz.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston, Mass : Kluwer Academic, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bayertz, Kurt.

Description

xix, 318 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• 'Sanctity of life' and 'human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. They serve as unquestionable cornerstones of morality, as rocks able to weather the storms of moral pluralism.
• This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts.

Series Statement

Philosophy and medicine ; v. 52

Uniform Title

Philosophy and medicine ; v. 52.

Subject

• Bioethics
• Dignity
• Ethics, Medical
• Human Rights
• Life > Religious aspects
• Medical ethics
• Philosophy, Medical
• Religion and Medicine

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Kurt Bayertz and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- 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 Menschenwurde / 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 Meschenwurde / Dieter Birnbacher -- Human Dignity and Genetic Tests / Thomas Petermann -- The Concept of a Person in Moral Philosophy / Ludger Honnefelder --
• Alterity and Judgment - 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 Menschenwurde: 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 / Bjorn Haferkamp -- The Sanctity of Life: A Literature Review / George Khushf.

ISBN

0792337395 (hardbound : alk. paper)

LCCN

95036283

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries