Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw

by David Beyleveld, Roger Brownsword, Deryck Beyleveld

The concept of human dignity is increasingly invoked in bioethical debate and, indeed, in international instruments concerned with biotechnology and biomedicine. While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, the authors of this groundbreaking new study give such appeals distinct and defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198268262
• ISBN13: 9780198268260
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"