Human Dignity and Bioethics

Index
A
abortion 220–221, 222, 373, 374,
430, 471
Adler, Mortimer 431
Ainslie, George
Breakdown of Will 56
alcohol See drugs and alcohol
Alzheimer’s 4
American Founding 12, 15, 287,
292, 318, 360 See also The Federalist
Papers
Anderson, Roland C. 144
Anderson, Stephen R. 136
anencephalic child 363, 385
animals See dignity: of animals;
See humans: as animals; See humans:
as more than animals;
See right(s): animal; See soul:
animal
Aquinas See Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle 45, 63, 72, 83, 84, 101,
102, 105, 106, 168, 175, 181,
219, 224, 356, 419, 420, 438,
471, 480, 496 See also dignity:
Aristotelian Argument from; See
also dignity: Aristotelian/Marxian
account of; See also soul: Aristotelian
account of
and capabilities 357–362, 451–465
Nicomachean Ethics 70, 219
On the Soul 69–70
Politics 219, 460
Arneson, Richard 415
Arnold, Matthew
Dover Beach 144
assisted suicide See death
Augustine 74, 218, 230–232, 247,
248, 250, 278
autonomy 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 20, 24,
26–27, 31–32, 65, 66, 146, 192,
216, 222, 235–237, 242, 243,
244, 245, 246, 247, 270, 290,
300, 302, 312, 313, 333, 334,
336, 337, 339, 382, 384, 387,
388, 437, 469, 507, 508, 510,
511, 514, 523, 525, 534 See
also dignity; See also dignity:
as autonomy; See also humans:
as autonomous chimps; See
also Kant, Immanuel: as father
of “autonomy”; See also patients:
and autonomy
B
Bacon, Francis 157, 217
Barrow, John D. 141
Barth, Karl 227
Bayes, Thomas 192, 209
Bear, Mark F. 143
Beauchamp and Childress
Principles of Biomedical Ethics 270
Beauchamp, Tom L. 25
Beecher, Henry K. 22
beneficence 23, 24
Benny, Jack 41
Bentham, Jeremy 366, 374, 413
545