Human Dignity and Bioethics

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Ethical Context 19
Nuremberg War Crime Trials 23
Nuremberg Code 23
Nussbaum, Martha 444, 452
central human
capabilities 377–378
commentary on 381–386
Frontiers of Justice 365, 454, 459
Human Development and Capability
Association 368, 373
Sex and Social Justice 372
Women and Human
Development 456
O
O’Donovan, Oliver 264
Ortega y Gasset, José 139
Orwell, George
The Road to Wigan Pier 209
P
pantheism 239–240
Pascal, Blaise 223
Pensées 136, 318
patients 135, 260, 300, 318,
522–533 See also dignity: from a
patient’s perspective
and autonomy 525
and dependence 510
and personal knowledge 510
and privacy 509
Paul 107
Pavlov, Ivan 65
Percy, Walker 241
performance See enhancement:
performance
persistent vegetative state 48, 363,
381, 385, 470, 496–498
persons 26, 143, 144, 145, 298, 311,
312, 340, 383, 385, 410–411,
416, 425–429 See also humans:
as persons; See also nature: and
personhood
as rational and responsible 342
being a person as criterion for moral
worth 412
Christian 244
defined by Aquinas 412
Kantian 245
respect for 14, 15, 20–26, 28, 31,
302, 483, 507, 508, 517 See
also dignity: as respect for
persons
philosophy 61, 62, 63, 68, 70, 73,
74, 79, 93, 130, 136, 158, 299,
311, 322, 342, 388, 389, 390,
399, 404
Plato 74, 93, 101, 222, 419, 451,
471
noble lie 93
Phaedrus 40, 98
Symposium 327–329
Pope Benedict XVI 517, 535–537
Pope Boniface VIII 112
Pope John Paul II 226, 253, 283,
288, 291, 444, 528–529
Pope Pius XII 112
Popper, Karl 177
posthumanism 155–172, 173,
202–212, 251, 302, 303,
305 See also transhumanism
Potts, Richard 137
Povinelli, Daniel 133
President’s Council on Bioethics 3,
19–21, 20, 27–30, 32–34,
254, 256, 257, 258, 266, 267,
274, 275, 278, 291, 292, 298,
299, 384, 387, 436, 437, 445,
494 See also Bush, George W.,
President: August 9, 2001, televised
address
Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent
Stem Cells 264, 441
Being Human 266, 277, 330, 441
Beyond Therapy 5, 271–272, 291,
330, 441
Human Cloning and Human Dignity
19, 254, 268–269, 330,