Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2005 Nov;31(11):679-82.
doi: 10.1136/jme.2004.011130.

Making sense of dignity

Richard E Ashcroft  1
Affiliations
Review

Making sense of dignity

Richard E Ashcroft. J Med Ethics. 2005 Nov.

Abstract

In this review of Leon Kass's Life, liberty and the defense of dignity and Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword's Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. I consider the prospects for a theory of dignity as a basis for bioethics research. I argue that dignity theories are worth exploring in more detail, but that research needs to consider both "antitheory" accounts of the language of bioethics, and to give more weight to accounts of dignity as an outcome of holding positive liberties and as something that has a psychological dimension.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. Med Health Care Philos. 2003;6(2):103-10 - PubMed
    1. BMJ. 2003 Dec 20;327(7429):1419-20 - PubMed
    1. Lancet. 2004 Sep 18-24;364(9439):1081-5 - PubMed
    1. Lancet. 2004 Aug 21-27;364(9435):725-9 - PubMed
    1. Lancet. 2004 Sep 18-24;364(9439):1019-21 - PubMed