Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
The Concept of Sanctity of Life and Its Use in Contemporary Bioethical Discussion....Pages 1-18
Sanctity of Life, Voluntary Euthanasia and the Dutch Experience: Some Implications for Public Policy....Pages 19-37
Value of Life Vs. Sanctity of Life — Outlines of a Bioethics That does without the Concept of Menschenwürde ....Pages 39-55
Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity at the Bedside....Pages 57-71
Human Dignity: Philosophical Origin and Scientific Erosion of an Idea....Pages 73-90
The General Notion of Human Dignity and the Specific Arguments in Medical Ethics....Pages 91-106
Ambiguities in the Concept of Menschenwürde....Pages 107-121
Human Dignity and Genetic Tests....Pages 123-138
The Concept of a Person in Moral Philosophy....Pages 139-160
Alterity and Judgment: Some Moral Implications of Hegel’s Concept of Life....Pages 161-175
Persons as “Self-Originating Sources of Value”....Pages 177-199
Sanctity of Life and Menschenwürde: Can These Concepts Help Direct the Use of Resources in Critical Care?....Pages 201-219
Not Sanctity or Dignity, But Justice and Autonomy: Key Moral Concepts in the Allocation of Critical Care....Pages 221-228
Sanctity of Life and the Neonatologist’s Dilemma....Pages 229-239
The Sanctity of Human Life: Secular Moral Authority, Biomedicine, and the Role of the State....Pages 241-256
On the Appeal for the Recognition of Human Dignity in Law and Morality....Pages 257-273
Back Matter....Pages 311-320