Human Dignity and Bioethics

Index | 547
Crosby, John 522
culture 130, 131, 132, 133, 148, 149
origin of 103–105
D
Dalai Lama 105
Darwall, Stephen 199
Darwin, Charles 65, 66, 90, 91, 404
The Descent of Man 116
Darwinism 66–67, 68, 84, 89, 90,
91, 92, 242, 243
Social 67, 90, 91
Davies, Paul 54, 71–72, 73, 93, 94
Are We Alone? 73
Deacon, Terrence W. 135
death
assisted suicide 108, 305, 373, 469,
487, 525, 532
capital punishment 40, 258, 418
conquering 61, 80, 156, 299, 302,
375–377
corpses 47, 48
euthanasia 175, 297, 299, 305,
315, 390, 430, 471, 474,
487–488, 489, 525, 532
fear of 17
murder 75, 161, 169, 253, 288,
322–326, 391–392, 402, 411,
416, 426
with dignity 217, 304, 305, 311,
326, 469, 488, 506, 525, 526
Declaration of Independence 10,
219, 221, 249, 261, 262, 266,
284, 286, 288, 289, 292,
316–318, 398
De Gaulle, Charles, cloned 80
DeLillo, Don
White Noise 17
Delsol, Chantal 239, 246
Dennett, Daniel C. 66–67, 68
commentary on 89–98, 278–283
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea 66, 91
Freedom Evolves 45
dependence See patients: and
dependence
Descartes, René 44, 46, 63, 96,
157 See also soul: Cartesian
pop Cartesianism 246
Dewey, John 102, 106
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House 169
dignity
and enhancement 180–204
Aristotelian Argument
from 451–465
Aristotelian/Marxian account
of 352, 357–360, 365
as accidentally comparative 310
as a quality 175–178, 180–204,
207–208
as a quality (defined) 175
as aristocratic 14, 166, 259, 260,
284, 286, 309
as autonomy 255, 273, 300, 437
as constraint 273, 274
as egalitarian 255, 257, 259, 261,
263, 264, 265, 268, 316, 320
as humanity 4, 15–16, 17,
393–394
as price 335
as respect for persons 129, 313,
437
as sanctity 14, 259, 322, 326, 333,
394–397, 400, 405
Biblical notion of 10, 14
classical notion of 6–8, 14
etymology of 6, 134, 176, 260,
308
from a patient’s
perspective 508–510
intrinsic, attributed, and inflorescent
defined 473–474
Kantian notion of 10–11, 12, 14
modern and American 247–251
of animals 365–367
of being “in-between” 168, 269,
270, 321–329, 445
of human being and being