TY - BOOK ID - 690056 TI - Human dignity, human rights, and responsibility : the new language of global ethics and biolaw PY - 2012 SN - 9780262017978 9780262525978 0262017970 PB - Cambridge (USA) The MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - global bioethics KW - mensbeeld KW - menselijke natuur KW - menswaardigheid (waardigheid) KW - mensenrechten (rechten van de mens) KW - verantwoordelijkheid (verantwoordingsplicht, verantwoording) KW - moraalfilosofie KW - moraalpsychologie KW - geschiedenis (historische aspecten) KW - image de l'homme KW - nature humaine KW - dignité humaine KW - droits de l'homme KW - responsabilité (imputabilité, obligation de rendre compte) KW - philosophie morale KW - psychologie morale KW - histoire (aspects historiques) KW - Ethiek KW - Rechten van de mens KW - Bio-ethiek KW - Gezondheidszorg KW - Respect for persons. KW - Bioethics. KW - Medical ethics. KW - Human rights. KW - Bioethics KW - Medical ethics KW - Respect for persons KW - Conduct of life KW - Persons KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Clinical ethics KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Health care ethics KW - Medical care KW - Medicine KW - Professional ethics KW - Nursing ethics KW - Social medicine KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Biology KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Law and legislation KW - Mensenrechten KW - Godsdienst KW - Sport KW - Duurzaamheid KW - Filosofie KW - Psychologie KW - Sociologie KW - Man KW - Cultuur KW - Erfelijkheidsleer KW - Stadssamenleving KW - Technologie KW - Voeding KW - Maatschappij KW - Verpleegkunde KW - Drank KW - Gezondheid KW - Volwassene UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:690056 AB - Human dignity has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term - like love, hope, and justice - that is intuitively grasped but never clearly defined. Some ethicists and bioethicists dismiss it; other thinkers point to its use in the service of particular ideologies. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights. After setting the problem in its scholarly context, he offers a hermeneutics of the formative texts on Imago Dei; provides a philosophical explication of the value of human dignity and of vulnerability; presents a comprehensive theory of human rights from a natural, humanist perspective; explores issues of moral status; and examines the value of responsibility as a link between virtue ethics and human dignity and rights. the author accompanies his theoretical claim with numerous practical illustrations, linking his theory to such issues in bioethics as end-of-life care, cloning, abortion, torture, treatment of the mentally incapacitated, the right to health care, the human organ market, disability and notions of difference, and privacy, highlighting many relevant legal aspects in constitutional and humanitarian lawBron: The MIT-press ER -