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Human Dignity and Bioethics

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Part IV. The Sources <strong>and</strong> Meaning of <strong>Dignity</strong><br />

Table of Contents | ix<br />

12 Defending <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong><br />

Leon R. Kass ....................................297<br />

13 Kant’s Concept of <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong> as a Resource for<br />

<strong>Bioethics</strong><br />

Susan M. Shell ..................................333<br />

14 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong> <strong>and</strong> Political Entitlements<br />

Martha Nussbaum. ...............................351<br />

Commentary on Nussbaum, Shell, <strong>and</strong> Kass<br />

Diana Schaub .............................381<br />

15 The Irreducibly Religious Character of <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong><br />

David Gelernter .................................387<br />

Part V. Theories of <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong><br />

16 The Nature <strong>and</strong> Basis of <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong><br />

Patrick Lee <strong>and</strong> Robert P. George ....................409<br />

17 Two Arguments from <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong><br />

Paul Weithman ..................................435<br />

18 <strong>Dignity</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Bioethics</strong>: History, Theory, <strong>and</strong> Selected<br />

Applications<br />

Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M.. .........................469<br />

Part VI. <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Practice of Medicine<br />

19 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Seriously Ill Patient<br />

Rebecca Dresser. .................................505<br />

20 The Lived Experience of <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Dignity</strong><br />

Edmund D. Pellegrino ............................513<br />

Contributors .......................................541<br />

Index. ............................................545

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