Reposted by michael miller jr.
Reports of dignity’s death as a useful bioethics concept were greatly exaggerated. It does real work — precisely because it unsettles the dust that cleaner operational constructs leave behind. #bioethics
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Medicine, the Holocaust, and Human Dignity: Lessons from Human Rights
The development of bioethics in the late Twentieth Century parallels the development of human rights discourses. Both intellectual movements have ideological roots in a reckoning with the tragedy of the...
