RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Making sense of dignity
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 679
OP 682
DO 10.1136/jme.2004.011130
VO 31
IS 11
A1 Ashcroft, Richard E
YR 2005
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/11/679.abstract
AB 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.