Research Catalog

Title

Human dignity and bioethics / edited by Edmund D. Pellegrino, Adam Schulman, and Thomas W. Merrill.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2009]

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Additional Authors

• Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013.
• Schulman, Adam.
• Merrill, Thomas W. (Thomas Westneat), 1974-
• President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.)

Description

xvi, 555 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Notre Dame studies in medical ethics

Uniform Title

Notre Dame studies in medical ethics.

Subjects

• Right to Die
• Dignity
• Bioethics

Note

• Originally published: Washington, D.C. : President's Council on Bioethics, 2008. With a new preface.
• "The essays in this volume were commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface. The persisting relevance of dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino, Adam Schulman and Thomas W. Merrill -- 1. Bioethics and the question of human dignity / Adam Schulman -- 2. Human dignity and respect for persons : a historical perspective on public bioethics / F. Daniel Davis -- 3. How to protect human dignity from science / Daniel C. Dennett -- 4. Human dignity and the mystery of the human soul / Robert P. Kraynak -- 5. Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective / Patricia S. Churchland -- 6. Human uniqueness and human dignity : persons in nature and the nature of persons / Holmes Rolston III -- 7. Human dignity and the future of man / Charles Rubin -- 8. Dignity and enhancement / Nick Bostrom -- 9. Human dignity and public discourse / Richard John Neuhaus -- 10. Modern and American dignity / Peter Augustine Lawler -- 11. Human dignity : exploring and explicating the council's vision / Gilbert Meilaender -- 12. Defending human dignity / Leon R. Kass -- 13. Kant's concept of human dignity as a resource for bioethics / Susan M. Shell -- 14. Human dignity and political entitlements / Martha Nussbaum -- 15. The irreducibly religious character of human dignity / David Gelernter -- 16. The nature and basis of human dignity / Patrick Lee and Robert P. George -- 17. Two arguments from human dignity / Paul Weithman -- 18. Dignity and bioethics : history, theory, and selected applications / Daniel P. Sulmasy -- 19. Human dignity and the seriously ill patient / Rebecca Dresser -- 20. The lived experience of human dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino.

ISBN

• 9780268038922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268038929 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009005511

OCLC

• ocn290438177
• 290438177
• SCSB-5473107

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries